This is just wrong.
This is just wrong. The pricing so far has been a classic case of loss-leader to build market share and ramp up until you can find a moat. Normally, the huge cost of training would provide such a moat, or the amount of training data required, but both of those seem to have been overcome by enough players to keep the ball in play. The next target to keep out the riffraff seems to be "Gigawatts of Data Center" (gack, I hate that metric!) and you might think that it would hold, given the finite size of the planet. But in space, no one can hear you bleed cash, so...
Posted by MarkusQ on May 22, 2026, 4:55 PM
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Yeah, the plan is far too expensive for what it provides.
NewCrashed demand after one of the big AI labs (probably Anthropic because they focus way too hard on expensive frontier models) become inso...
New/dev/random is much too expensive for this.
Yeah, this always bugged me.
A year ago, I had the opinion that it'd be too expensive for developers to support offline mode, peer to peer, or community servers after...
The weird thing about this product is that its biggest competitor is "an old ipad." I feel like most of their target customer base alread...
There's a talk from Travis Kalanick recently on a podcast about this.
>nobody ever bought German cars for their low prices, except the Beetle Huh?
This is just wrong.
This is just wrong. The pricing so far has been a classic case of loss-leader to build market share and ramp up until you can find a moat. Normally, the huge cost of training would provide such a moat, or the amount of training data required, but both of those seem to have been overcome by enough players to keep the ball in play. The next target to keep out the riffraff seems to be "Gigawatts of Data Center" (gack, I hate that metric!) and you might think that it would hold, given the finite size of the planet. But in space, no one can hear you bleed cash, so...
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