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How is this even remotely sustainable let alone so low-margin that it could be "given away for free"? The only reason folks are only paying a small monthly sub
by agentultra 2y ago
How is this even remotely sustainable let alone so low-margin that it could be "given away for free"?
The only reason folks are only paying a small monthly subscription for gippity is literally because of all the VC money flowing in. Training, running, and scaling this stuff has a huge cost. The extra datacentres, the fresh water, all the air conditioning, energy usage, chips, the exploited unprotected labour, etc. It seems very expensive.
Usually when people selling shovels are giving shovels away for free they're banking on a payoff. Usually a regulatory capture payoff. Or a hedge of some kind?
I'm still trying to wrap my head around this.
Update: .. VC money flowing in and the extremely favourable taxation "exceptions" for tech companies in thirsty economies...
- mschuster91 2y ago> Usually when people selling shovels are giving shovels away for free they're banking on a payoff. Usually a regulatory capture payoff. Or a hedge of some kind? The payoff is different... everyone's banking on someone making a breakthrough regarding AGI/ASI and then being the first one to actually make a mass market product out of it that achieves dominance. But for that to happen, you need a lot of extremely smart people working for you, and you get these people working for you by giving them something to play around with.
- meiraleal 2y agoThat's the best interpretation of Meta move I've read so far. I guess it is Meta's Chrome moment.