I guess they want to partially subsidize local developers?

Maybe that's a requirement from whoever funds them, probably public money.

Seriously? Does Netflix or Spotify cost the same everywhere around the world? They earn less and their buying power is less.

	▲	vineyardmike 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The costs of Netflix and Spotify are licensing. Offering the subscription at half price to additional users is non-cannibalizing and a way to get more revenue from the same content. The cost of LLMs are the infrastructure. Unless someone can buy/power/run compute cheaper (Google w/ TPUs, locales with cheap electricity, etc), there won't be a meaningful difference in costs.
	▲	epolanski 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Sure so do professional tools like Microsoft teams or compute in different places of the world.