Ask HN: If OpenAI stops its free Web service (ChatGPT)

[JPLeRouzic]

Then I guess their competitors will stop their own free LLM services (why burn money?). What kind of local LLM can I use to at least check my code?

[dlcarrier]

Inference (i.e. running an already trained LLM) requires current top-end hardware, but over time that will become commodity hardware, so there's only a small perioud (perhaps the next decade) where running an LLM as a service instead of locally even makes sense, so they will likely not go away because they are too expensive, but because they are too cheap.

[farseer]

Their competitor is Google, which has already baked AI into search and allows you to talk to Gemini separately as well. Google already makes a hundred billion a year from text search and won't stop a free Gemini which adds value to their search. What makes you say that?

Also Deepseek and Alibaba would love to capture OpenAI users.