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There's no accounting for taste, but keep in mind that all of these services are currently losing money, so how much would you actually be willing to pay for the service you're currently getting in order to let it break even? There was a report that Microsoft is losing $20 for every $10 spent on Copilot subscriptions, with heavy users costing them as much as $80 per month. Assuming you're one of those heavy users, would you pay >$80 a month for it?

Then there's chain-of-thought being positioned as the next big step forwards, which works by throwing more inferencing at the problem, so that cost can't be amortized over time like training can...

parent jsheard 2 years ago

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