All SOTA model providers are losing money. When users run Opus, they are essentially renting a GPU cluster worth half a million dollars for a $100/$200 subscription. If they want to IPO, they need to show a projection toward profit. For that reason, they want to discourage power users and attract normies.
> All SOTA model providers are losing money.
Source? I only read one article on this topic and they approximated gross margins at 50%.
> When users run Opus, they are essentially renting a GPU cluster worth half a million dollars for a $100/$200 subscription.
They use a large batch size, you're sharing the GPU with many other people.