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Re:Microsoft Discussed Selling Bing to Apple as Google Repla... by diffeomorphism on Friday September 29, 2023 @07:26AM (#37702120)
Obvious answer: because it is too expensive to offer it for "free".

Even if you had the GPUs, compute and electricity cost money:

https://medium.com/@zodhyatech/how-much-energy-does-chatgpt-...

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Re:Microsoft Discussed Selling Bing to Apple as Google Repla... by guidedlight on Friday September 29, 2023 @07:37AM (#37702223)
YouTube made a loss for many years because the storage and data costs were vastly higher than their revenue, despite offering the product for free.
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Re:Microsoft Discussed Selling Bing to Apple as Google Repla... by edgyquant on Friday September 29, 2023 @09:00AM (#37703467)
Those were very different market conditions though
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