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OpenAI says they're very profitable on inference.
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shaky-carrousel • yesterday at 9:14 AM
All of these have ads. And none of these have an equal value alternative. OpenAI, Claude, Deepseek, Mistral, Gemini, are mostly the same to a regular user.
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> OpenAI says they're very profitable on inference.
Great, but they need to burn billions on advertising, freemeium, and mostly R&D for new models.