“OpenAI's market share is under direct attack as Anthropic extends its best model free to all paid users, using 80% inference margins to fund a sustained price war. Microsoft, which bet its AI future on OpenAI, gets caught in the crossfire.”
“They absolutely can. Claude makes 80% gross margins on serving inference. They are probably deciding to sacrifice profits to fuck with GPT's SOL.”
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