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> So for the most part access to AI is way cheaper than it will be in the next 5-10 years.

That's a lie people repeat because they want it to be true.

AI inference is currently profitable. AI R&D is the money pit.

Companies have to keep paying for R&D though, because the rate of improvement in AI is staggering - and who would buy inference from them over competition if they don't have a frontier model on offer? If OpenAI stopped R&D a year ago, open weights models would leave them in the dust already.