How do you expect the spend & COGS for free LLM inference to be funded? For users who don't want to pay, or maybe can't pay?

Perhaps it’s a glib and easy thing to say, but after a teaser period, I would simply not offer free LLM inference. Agreeing to serve ads just completely re-aligns your interests away from providing the best possible user experience to something else entirely.

From things like defense/private contracts

e.g. colleges pay for institutional subscriptions

The average person doesn't benefit from defense contracts ... Like ever.

The average person is slightly more female than male and has 2.1 children, but they do benefit from defense contracts since it makes up a small percentage of their salary.

You are a fun person. We should be friends