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this is a story about a proprietary accelerator being built/designed by a token provider. and you think they're going to return the efficiency gains to the customer instead of capture the value for themselves? interesting take.

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OpenAI just dropped the price of Luna by 80% and Sol by 20-30%

and amazon shipping used to be free without prime, and uber used to be cheaper than taxis, and airbnb used to be cheaper than hotels.

you really don't get it?

almost every pure tech commodity has gone down in price

- gpus

- retail computers

- laptops

- ~gpu~ appliances like washing machines

- cloud computing

i think you don't get how economy usually works in tech

I'm especially enjoying how RAM and SSDs are going down in price.

GPUs and laptops and memory and storage are all crazy expensive

listing gpu's here is crazy considering the current prices

I was checking laptops today for an upgrade from the model I bought back in 2019 and it's not gonna happen from how cheap they are.

GPUs and memory have gone up in price. It's more expensive to buy a 1-2 year old video card than it was at launch, sometimes by a shockingly large factor. Laptop vendors have recently shipped flagship models with less memory than the previous model, because they can't match price expectations for a laptop.

i figured out why this comment is so confusing: this is actually a message from the past, around 2020. either that or simianwords is a time traveler that arrived today and hasn't read the news yet.

We should be mindful of the context that many of these providers VERY likely have been selling their subscriptions at a substantial loss

So as much as i agree “more profits to stakeholders screw the customer”, i think its more of an emergency to get to profitability before the music stops.

> We should be mindful of the context that many of these providers VERY likely have been selling their subscriptions at a substantial loss.

what makes you think this?

Because everyone keeps saying this so it must be true. Real "it is known" kind of vibe with these statements.

He's a subscription truther. There's loads of them. OpenAI's profit increases with each subscription that is cancelled. Pretty soon they'll have more profit than God.

Yes, I can bet on this happening. If anything, this is a net gain for consumers as it is a competitive market.

go ahead and bet: alibaba is a publicly traded company

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