I don't understand the logic around excluding the training costs and pointing to that as profitability. FOSS models are not that far behind, the day that OpenAI announces that they're done training models is the day that everyone focuses their energy on getting as close to SOTA output on free models.
These companies have to keep training because that's their moat, hyping the next big model is only thing keeping the market from asking the real questions about growth capability.
Training free models also costs money. As long as a dozen small companies can raise money to train models they give away for free, OpenAI can also do so, except they charge a pretty penny, so they can even throw in some of their own cash.
The world where OpenAI stops training because it's too expensive is a world where everyone else has given up even earlier.
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The world where OpenAI stops training because it's too expensive is a world where everyone else has given up even earlier.