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by diffeomorphism 993 days ago
Obvious answer: because it is too expensive to offer it for "free".

Even if you had the GPUs, compute and electricity cost money:

https://medium.com/@zodhyatech/how-much-energy-does-chatgpt-...

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YouTube made a loss for many years because the storage and data costs were vastly higher than their revenue, despite offering the product for free.
Those were very different market conditions though