alt Hacker NewsThe same business model that Deepseek is using.
Open-source models + services. This is more attractive because it doesn't lock in the vendors. If I grow larger, I can decide to deploy the open-source models.
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tyre • today at 8:34 PM
So they're constantly hemorrhaging their most valuable clients?
Tech history is littered with the corpses of "open source but we sell hosting" services. Models are so expensive to train, you can't be losing the big clients once they get super profitable.
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> The same business model that Deepseek is using.
there is a chance their business model is absorbing government funding..