On: Why DeepSeek is cheap at scale but expensive to run locally

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It's likely that no one who makes base models is currently making money from LLMs. More likely losing it at a crazy rate.

These prices are almost certainly "introductory offer" prices to get people/devs to integrate AI into their lives/workflow/product.

In a few years is when we will see what the actual cost is.