The same business model that Deepseek is using.

Open-source models + services. This is more attractive because it doesn't lock in the vendors. If I grow larger, I can decide to deploy the open-source models.

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andriy_koval an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> The same business model that Deepseek is using.

there is a chance their business model is absorbing government funding..

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tyre 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So they're constantly hemorrhaging their most valuable clients?

Tech history is littered with the corpses of "open source but we sell hosting" services. Models are so expensive to train, you can't be losing the big clients once they get super profitable.

	▲	MikeTheGreat 25 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		This is genuine, noob question: how is this different from AWS? I get that they're in very different businesses, but for both don't they have the issue that once a client gets big enough the client might decide to move the services in-house? Based on how much of the internet went down when that AWS data center crashed the answer is clearly "No" for AWS. Is that because of physical, real-world infrastructure? Are there no open versions of their APIs? Is it too hard to migrate to something else once a client has achieved that size?