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Chinese 1T+ models are being offered at a fraction of GPT/Claude cost, and the margin is healthy enough for dozens of providers to compete, so I find it highly likely that ClosedAI and Misanthropic sell tokens at massive markup. they just still bleed billions on their free tier and san francisco salaries.

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Why we should assume that whoever offers these Chinese models makes sufficient profits and will not rise the prices eventually too?

Chinese models are state-funded and not concerned with taking profits.

that's not how that works

regardless, the parent comment is talking about third parties hosting, for a fee, the openly available models, usually outside china

Some of these models are open weight. You can try hosting them and do the price calculation yourself.

They also publish papers talking about how to save kv cache and computation powers. Because currently they don't have the most powerful nvidia cards, training and inference efficiency is very import for them.

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