OpenAI made a mistake by focusing on consumers early on, while Anthropic focused on enterprises. However, the consumer market can still be insanely valuable. OpenAI just needs to follow $GOOG's footsteps. It has to make the product free and monetize via ads. This was possible for $GOOG because traditional search is 10 to 100x cheaper than LLM search. But given that the cost of LLM tasks should also decline in the future, OpenAI can make consumer business largely free and monetize via ads. This could be a game-changer for OpenAI's revenue trajectory and for the whole AI buildout.
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