> I don't think any of these companies are aiming at long term goal of making money from inference pricing of customers.
What is DeepSeek aiming for if not that, which is currently the only thing they offer that cost money? They claim their own inference endpoints has a cost profit margin of 545%, which might be true or not, but the very fact that they mentioned this at all seems to indicate it is of some importance to them and others.
Well it's certainly helpful in the interim that they can recoup some money from inference. I'm just saying that with systems with more intelligence in the future can be used to make money in much better ways than charging customers for interacting with it. For instance it could conduct research on projects which can generate massive revenue if successful.
What is DeepSeek aiming for if not that, which is currently the only thing they offer that cost money? They claim their own inference endpoints has a cost profit margin of 545%, which might be true or not, but the very fact that they mentioned this at all seems to indicate it is of some importance to them and others.