

Headline is innacuralte. Customers who purchase a $200/month subscription, can save up to $13800 on token costs compared to “a la carte” token pricing. Open AI does lose over $1 per $ in revenue, but this is more a function of them having too much compute, and very high training costs, rather than a loss per gpu hour on tokens served, it should stilll be a loss for OpenAI:
Open source model pricing per gpu hour, ranges from 80% margins at high batch saturation per user (low tps per user) to 50% at concurency of 8, to loss at fewer user requests per gpu. https://inferencex.semianalysis.com/compare/deepseek-r1-b300-vs-h200
OpenAI has very high prices, and too much compute. They would likely lose $6000 per user who maxes out their $200 plan, and certainly over $1000 per user.











Gulf Cooperation Council is essentially west side of Persian Gulf. It is very oil rich region, includes 2-3 very rich, countries with city infrastructure better developed than any US city. Dubai is epitomy of this with global financial/transport/tourism center, tallest sky scraper in world. War has caused a 30%-50% property value drop. Iran has been striking energy and US bases in these countries.
US wealth is far more dependent on GCC investment than Israel control. This war has ended, because GCC were threatening US. Terms includes not rebuilding destroyed US bases, and leaving the ones they still occupy.