[pvab3]

Training is the expensive part here. It seems much more likely that the training of these models slows down drastically and is written off as a sunk cost, a few companies continue running inference on years-old models, and the free versions go away.

[iLoveOncall]

This is addressed in the very first sentence of the article that you obviously didn't read.

[pvab3]

No it's not. It never makes any distinction between training and inference. It just lumps it all together as "running" the models.

[gingersnap]

But he's not wrong. Training + inference on free customers is the black hole here.

[crazygringo]

Except it's not. And the footnote that might be expected to clarify turns out to be a joke footnote.