alt Hacker News> just a matter of finding 5 billion people willing to pay US prices
This is how you know ads are inevitable. YouTube is probably a good indicator of how BigLabs will operate for free users.
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marcosdumay • today at 3:40 AM
Yes, their numbers can even work out into a sustainable business with ads only.
They just have to become the world dominant LLM provider by a large margin, and become a high-value ad provider with world scale.
I mean... They just have to repeat a Google. That would make them sustainable and a reasonable value for the investment.
mikgp • today at 12:50 AM
What is the mental model folks have that “just do ads” is easy, like only two companies have figured out how to make money from ads and I imagine they won’t take the competition lying down.
I'd be cool with that. YouTube premium is one of the best value subscriptions I have. Steering people toward paying instead of ads-by-default is a net good imo