alt Hacker NewsDeepSeek and Qwen set a floor American open-weight models can't match without subsidy or a different cost structure, and that price/performance ratio drives adoption more than benchmarks.
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mapontosevenths • today at 2:03 AM
Anthropic is profitable now. They have massive debt looming over them, but they're at least making more than they spend each quarter.
It's worth noting that Chinese AI labs aren't profitable, so in some sense they're not doing it without subsidy either.