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well, yes. But also this is an extremely difficult to price product. 200$/m is already insane, but now you’re suggesting they should’ve gone even more aggressive. It could turn out almost nobody would use it. An optimal price here is a tricky guess.

Although they probably should’ve sold a “limited subscription”. That does give you max break-even amount of queries per month, or 2x of that, but not 100x, or unlimited. Otherwise exactly what happened can happen.

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“Our product that costs metric kilotons of money to produce but provides little-to-no value is extremely difficult to price” oh no, damn, ye, that’s a tricky one

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The real problem is believing that you can run a profitable LLM company.

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What the LLMs do, at the end of the day, is statistics. If you want a more precise model, you need to make it larger. Basically, exponentially scaling marginal costs meet exponentially decaying marginal utility.

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Some LLM bros must have seen this comment and become offended.

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I signed up for API access. I run all my queries through that. I pay per query. I’ve spent about $8.70 since 2021. This seems like a win-win model. I save hundreds of dollars and they make money on every query I run. I’m confused why there are subscriptions at all.

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