If you think heavily subsidizing AI models isn’t financially viable, I have some bad news for you about US AI companies.
Deepseek has made some incredible advancements in model efficiency, and more importantly actually publishes those advancements so everyone can benefit from them.
> more importantly actually publishes those advancements so everyone can benefit from them.
I suspect American inference providers implement the efficiency gains, and pad their margins rather than pass the savings along to the consumer.