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The plan is to maintain free anonymous access to base models, with eventually search better integrated as well. We'd also like to experiment with providing anon
by yegg 2y ago
The plan is to maintain free anonymous access to base models, with eventually search better integrated as well. We'd also like to experiment with providing anonymous access to more cutting-edge models as part of Privacy Pro.
- blululu 2y agoThis feels like a corpspeak non answer to the serious question above. This move will increase operating costs by a considerable amount. Is the company sufficiently profitable that it can eat the loss or is this a gamble that culminates in a PE takeover? I get that duck duck go is in a tough position since LLM search is increasing popular among users, but without a business model that balances out this feels dubious. E.G this is the marketing campaign before everyone is going to be herded into the paid tier Privacy Pro?
- yegg 2y agoYes, we are sufficiently profitable and have in fact been profitable for a decade. Our mission is to provide easy access to privacy, and offering things free where we can is key to doing that well. Additionally, we expect the forthcoming search integrations to end up at least break-even in any case.
- Zhyl 2y agoAt the moment there don't appear to be ads on the chat page. Is this something that will be coming so that chat can be monetised?
- freediver 2y agoThe first steps towards DuckDuckGo assuming a paid business model. Love it!