[Aurornis]

> You have no idea whether those companies are making a profit.

I doubt the various providers on OpenRouter are benevolently operating at a loss because they’re so generous.

You can also calculate the cost to run these models yourself. They are open weight and the hardware required to run them is not a secret. They can be modeled and many have done the business modeling.

I’m always surprised at how many Hacker News commenters are unaware that a lot of financial modeling and analysis has been done on these companies and models. It’s naive to think the the hottest topic in tech has not already been dissected and analyzed by the finance industry at every level.

[sarchertech]

Selling a brands new project at a loss to gain market share or to compete with other companies doing it because you hope you can outlast them isn’t being benevolent or generous.

If you want to link to a specific cost analysis that was performed by someone without a vested interest in generating hype then do it and we’ll discuss that.

Because what you wrote sounds an awful lot like “let me tell you a lot of very smart people are saying it.”