Comment by johnsmith1840
1 hour ago
I really don't see how they're going to be google here. The free tier is dominated by verticle integration and the platform that people use. Long term I imagine google wins the bottom of the market and I'd be suprised if they lost.
Ads.
Ads work when you can server $.01 worth of ads to a user for $.0001 of server cost. I fail to see how you can make it work when doing LLM inference which is significantly costlier than web search.
In about 4 months, OpenAI’s fundraiser decks will leak, which will include their current ad revenue.
People tell these models everything. You don't think a pretty unethical company can figure out a way to monetize that?