Crikey. Now I get the business model:

I hire someone for say £5K/mo. They then spend $200/mo or is it a $1000/wk on Claude or whatevs.

Profit!

The model is "outspend others until they're bankrupt".

Known as the Uber model or Amazon vs Diapers.com

It's a shame that the LLM era missed out on coinciding with the zero interest rates era. Just imagine the waste we could create.

> Amazon vs Diapers.com

To be fair that was a little different; Amazon wanted to buy the parent company of Diapers.com so sold at a loss to tank the value of the company so they could buy it cheap.

Wasn't there a stat somewhere that a good o3-pro deep research was ~$3500, per question?

I highly doubt that was ever the case in the UI version. You're probably thinking of when they benchmarked o3-high on ARC-AGI and it cost $3440 per question.