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by reset-password 1176 days ago
Of course it does.
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Well it’s either that or you pay a subscription for it. Microsoft has to recoup their costs somehow.
Or it ends up being both, because Microsoft.
Microsoft owns a pretty big chunk of OpenAI. They are going to make a lot more from that investment than the nickels and dimes that their search engine generates. They can afford to pay for chat.
Aren't search ads the biggest revenue source for Google, one of the biggest tech companies around?
Compute and bandwidth are not free. Just because they can afford to give it away for free doesn’t mean there’sa good business case to do so.