alt Hacker NewsWhy would they? Unless they have lots of unused tpu real estate that they could host it on “for free” they would be bumping more profitable workloads off of machines to give away that capacity to people with zero long term loyalty. There is no business reason for google to subsidize these models.
OpenAI has too much money. They’re spending their money in stupid ways.
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AuthAuth • today at 12:34 AM
Having people use the model generates real world training data which could be useful. Other than that I think you're right that there is little reason to artificially boost users with subsidized pricing.
> OpenAI has too much money
I think they got some data center deals very cheap when no on was thinking about data centers. Dario didnt want to take that risk so Anthropic didnt make the deals earlier but now paying Google and Elon higher rates.