This is a great way to drive users to competitors.
FYI https://www.deepseek.com/en and https://chat.qwen.ai/ don't have ads.
this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2025
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If you're not paying, you're the product. Even on Chinese services. Alibaba does train my favorite local models though (Qwen).
Both models are open source
Indeed, and I give them credit. China is unironically leading the world in scientific progress. I wouldn't recommend using their services though, for privacy reasons (same with the US).
Companies have already been SEOing LLMs for a few months now. There are companies who have a panel of participants who are willing to share their data, and this is then used to estimate what people might be searching on LLMs and now to optimise content so that it shows up on responses across LLMs.
Ads was the logical direction for LLMs and has always been the only pathway to any substantial revenue.
This is interesting, because “add ads” usually means margins are slim, and the product is in a race to the bottom.
If ChatGPT was the transcendent, priceless, premium service they are hyping it as… why would it need ads?
There needs to be laws like yesterday that force tools to disclose if responses are influenced by ads.
Deepseek here i come