Ask HN: How can DuckDuckGo afford their free private LLM model access?

5 points by mark_l_watson ↗ HN
The allow private access to o3-mini, llama 3.3 70B, etc.

It is a nice service, but must cost real money to provide the service.

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VC cash.

"We're losing money on every sale but we'll make it up in volume"