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		Pedro_Ribeiro 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its mode... Does that include R&D? If running ChatGPT costs $1B/y and they make $3B/y on it, tacking on the cost of R&D on top doesn't seem very fair.

amoshebb 10 months ago | [–]

why not? if their product is “SOTA LLM” then they can’t just lay off r&d and coast. Years from now nobody is going to be paying for “that authentic gpt4 sound”. LLMs aren’t guitars.

__loam 10 months ago | [–]

Afaik it includes inference which they seem to be offering at a loss.

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