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The lack of capitalization is not only making this hard to read, but it makes the author seem like they don’t really value their own words. If they don’t care, why would I care as a reader?

Also burning the boats means committing to something, without a way to get out of it. The article doesn’t seem to be about that.

I think the "burning the boats" action is releasing very low API pricing. Once consumers see the lower price they would balk if it was raised back up enough to provide some margin on inference. So the article is saying OpenAI won't have a way to switch back to profit from inferences.

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