You're moving the goalposts, given the original complaint was not about research costs but about the marginal cost of serving additional users...

I guess you'd be surprised to find out that Meta's R&D costs are an order of magnitude higher than OpenAI's training + research costs? ($45B in 2024, vs. about $5B for OpenAI according to the leaked financials.)

Meta has a massively profitable social media business with an impenetrable network effect, so they're using that to subsidize the research. Whether that's a good decision or not is above my paygrade, but it's sustainable until something changes with the social media market.

I don't know what "moving the goalposts" means. Why were the goalposts there in the first place? The interesting questions here are whether OpenAI can sustain their current cost model long-term, and whether the revenue stream is sustainable without the costs. We'll see, I guess! It's fascinating.