and yet they are still loosing money by running ChayGPT 3.5 for free. I guess that in the future they'll switch to a local small model in the hardware that is capable enough.
I think it's like anything on the modern web, they'll lose money until they reach a critical mass of users who get accustomed to using ChatGPT in their day-to-day life, and then they'll kill the free tier.
Except their free tier is still around for everything that they started as free. Outlook, bing, Visual Studio Code, even office is free for students and teachers.
They'll always keep the low tier free to get people hooked and charge businesses whatever.
Microsoft has free tier Office tools because they're data brokers now. TMK they didn't always have free Outlook, it was bundled in Office, which cost money. I don't see ChatGPT remaining free forever, it costs too much to run. I could be wrong though, depending on how much valuable data they can scrape from it.
Yeah they didn't gave a free Office, Outlook or Visual studio. Now they do and there is no sign of them stopping it. Bing is expensive and they aren't stopping it.
Chatgpt is MS's first real chance of dethroning Google search. They're going to keep a free tier forever.