The original post: /r/localllama by /u/takuonline on 2025-01-06 21:22:02.

Remember when Uber rides cost next to nothing? 🚗💨

That was the era of VC-subsidized transportation.

Now we’re in the age of VC-subsidized AI. Instead of cheap rides, we’re getting cheap intelligence.

As Dan Hockenmaier pointed out recently: Use it while it lasts—because nothing this good stays free forever.

This was in response to Sam Altman’s post on X saying:

insane thing: we are currently losing money on openai pro subscriptions! people use it much more than we expected.

Original post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rubendominguezibar_remember-when-uber-rides-cost-next-to-nothing-activity-7282134404733284352-Sdz1

This is such an interesting take and l wonder if it’s true, but then again, we have made models orders of magnitude smaller, faster and cheaper in the last 2 years that this might not be the case. Thoughts?