[lockhouse]

Well it’s either that or you pay a subscription for it. Microsoft has to recoup their costs somehow.

[reset-password]

Or it ends up being both, because Microsoft.

[criddell]

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.

[michaelt]

Aren't search ads the biggest revenue source for Google, one of the biggest tech companies around?

[lockhouse]

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.