Hah I agree, they will find a way. In the end, the big winners will be the ones who find use cases other than a general chatbot. Or AGI, I guess.

If they can offer enterprise-level support for everything they're in a prime position to be the Oracle of AI. In the sense that open-source programming languages can out preform Java in certain instances, but they choose Oracle because they can just pick a phone and the person on the other can solve any issue they have. DeepSeek without a for-profit model just wont be able to offer such a service.