And just because you have users doesn’t mean it’s easy to create a profitable ad business - ask Yahoo. Besides we still don’t know how much inference costs. But there is a real marginal costs that wouldn’t be covered by ads. They definitely couldn’t make enough on ads to cover their training costs and other costs.
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And just because you have users doesn’t mean it’s easy to create a profitable ad business - ask Yahoo. Besides we still don’t know how much inference costs. But there is a real marginal costs that wouldn’t be covered by ads. They definitely couldn’t make enough on ads to cover their training costs and other costs.