A few more important points: The costs of running the whole operation. Google so far has been unmatched in extracting every single cent from every customer and

A few more important points: The costs of running the whole operation. Google so far has been unmatched in extracting every single cent from every customer and have tried to keep their operations as optimized as possible. ChatGPT is a gimmick. I won't lie, I've used it for some trivial tasks but I'm willing to bet it's nowhere nearly as scalable as Google. In addition, a single google query costs google less than a peanut and a few ads later, it's been paid off(plus profit) while it probably costs a big ass bag of cashew to do the same. This is not an operation you can fund with ads and byproduct services. Even if it's been announced that the service will be free forever, it's Elon Musk we are talking here. He is famous for having 90 different, completely contradicting opinions every minute. And when shit hits the fan, it's gonna be a lot more than $8/month to have access to it.