Judging by the early proliferation, it seems that producing an adequate LLM isn't super-expensive. And It seems to me (not well informed) that they are already past the point of diminishing returns. As yet, most of them seem to be cheap or free and it seems quite possible they will stay that way, with profitability to be gained only by eating into the near-monopoly of advertising revenue now held by Alphabet and Meta.

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