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Yes, but they're all offering what appears to be a commoditized product with race-to-the-bottom economics.

You can't jack up the prices on your product if your competitors can just clone it and resell its essence for pennies on the dollar.

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It's glorious isn't it. We get free work done through subsidies. At the same time, this is what threatens my job, and the money for the subsidy is basically my own invested pensions.
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> Their job is to just suck the oxygen out of the room

And that this is even legal is a scandal all on its own.

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Hard to enforce when you’re dealing with private companies with “creative” accounting - who’s to say what the actual cost of inference is for OpenAI or Anthropic?

Possibly they don’t even really know themselves at this point, although obviously is it significantly higher than the consumer subscription price

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