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if even China can't make LLMs make economic sense, Zitron will ascend to a higer plane

Every time I listen to an interesting podcast from him that I think of sharing with people I work with he makes sure to immediately drop twelve expletives that I just do not want to share with these people.

That said, I’ve adopted “doesn’t know shit about fuck” for tactical usage and it’s beautiful

Interesting. 200 million is peanuts compared to most, OpenAI lost 9 billion last year.

I tried a couple times for it to get a funny reply to this prompt but the most I got was 'it appears you are trying to make a joke involving a pun on my name'

They pretty recently announced that the 50% off they had before will be the new normal price and now they raise the price. Their pricing strategy doesn't seem entirely thought through.

I'd would like to know that too

People genuinely thought it being a Chinese company and China being a socialist country, it would be raining milk and honey from the sky for them.

Best case scenario: they're deliberately underpromising and overdelivering, and the price increase is overstated.

They're not immune from the fundamental problem of the AI bubble: if people had to pay the true cost of the thing (even if Chinese LLMs are significantly more efficient), almost no use case would have a justifiable ROI. LLMs are expensive to train and run, and users have been shielded from that cost by VCs and CAPEX spending.

OpenAI and Anthropic did the same thing months ago. It is coming for all multi-purpose LLMs

hows gemma 4 treating you lately? the prices on openrouter were worse than deepseek at the time so i never even bothered to try it