Comment by badatnames
1 day ago
I imagine they're doing this due to capacity issues or somesuch. They can always relaunch Pro later, meanwhile a little ricered benchmaxxing of their existing flash model provides a temporary cover story. They certainly aren't silly enough to think this won't impact existing Pro users </paranoia>
They could raise prices, if capacity is problem
They can't increase capacity by raising prices. Right now they calculate that they're at an optimal revenue curve. Simply reducing demand by increasing prices doesn't mean they get more money. The limit is in the ability to buy hardware.
They did, but it was not well-received. Perhaps they want to try something different.
DeepSeek user here.
I very much prefer they don't raise prices.
Same here, they are still extremely cheap, though.