alt Hacker NewsOpenAI would still lose money if the basic subscriptions were costing $500 and they had the same amount of subscribers as right now. There's not a single model shop who's ever making any money, let alone ungodly amounts.
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Der_Einzige • yesterday at 5:24 PM
This is literally lies and total bullshit. They’d be making insane profits at those prices.
They don’t have to spend all their cash at once on the 30GW of data centers commitments.
Why go on the internet and tell stupid lies?
These costs you are referencing are training/R&D costs. Take those largely away, and you are left with inference costs, which are dirt cheap.
Now you have a world of people who have become accustomed to using AI for tons of different things, and the enshittification starts ramping up, and you find out how much people are willing to pay for their ChatGPT therapist.