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> OpenAI and others are already profitable on inference (inference is really really cheap) If it's that cheap I'll soon be doing it self-hosted, or switching t
by lelanthran 8mo ago
> OpenAI and others are already profitable on inference (inference is really really cheap)
If it's that cheap I'll soon be doing it self-hosted, or switching to a local provider.
It's a race to the bottom for tokens-providers.
- jychang 8mo agoIt is that cheap. Look at Deepseek or GLM pricing.
- lelanthran 8mo ago> It is that cheap. Look at Deepseek or GLM pricing. Then it's a race to the bottom.
- dangus 8mo agoYep. And unlike competitors, OpenAI has no ecosystem. Just a website and a domain name. Even a VSCode fork like Cursor is an improvement over that state. Google pays over 15% of search revenue to be the default search engine on various browsers.