I would lean towards agreeing. And I definitely think AI companies should not try to make their money on inference. If there is a well performing model being d

I would lean towards agreeing. And I definitely think AI companies should not try to make their money on inference. If there is a well performing model being deployed it is possible to train a similar model while not having to eat the cost of exploration. Ie. it is only the the cost of training said model. ChatGPT would probably die in a couple of weeks, if an equivalent, free, product came out that people could run on their computers.