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You could have said this about Google's Search product... How much would the average normie pay if Google suddenly charged? Sure the user-base would drop. And
by saberience 21d ago
You could have said this about Google's Search product...
How much would the average normie pay if Google suddenly charged? Sure the user-base would drop.
And what? Did Google suddenly become a bad business?
I find it funny how people have these strange and hypocritical viewpoints when it comes to OpenAI and Anthropic when the hyperscalars like Google, Amazon etc, followed these exact same kinds of playbooks for years and years.
- detourdog 21d agoProbably not a normie but I pay for Kagi search because it’s a lot like pre-seo google. So far haven’t tried any AI since OpenCYC.
- disgruntledphd2 21d agoThe labs have raised far, far more money than any of the hyperscalers ever did, with no sign of a route to monopoly profits.
- oblio 21d agoI think you, and many LLM fans, have a grossly distorted view of per unit SaaS costs vs per unit current LLM costs. Google Searches, once the infra setup was finished, were ridiculously cheap. Not the case for OpenAI & co. Inflation adjusted, launching most of Google's core services (Search, Gmail, Maps, etc) cost less than launching ChatGPT 5. Running them at similar scales is also much cheaper per user. There is a point at which it's just too much. Oh, Google and Amazon never had these kinds of humongous losses and they reached profitability much sooner.
- oblio 21d agoOh, besides my other comment. Yes, I'm against all predatory economic behavior. Selling user data, price dumping, platforms/walled gardens/monopolies/oligopolies/cartels/etc.