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Is inference really that expensive? Anyway if the price is too low they could easily charge by query

• knicholes 3y ago
  When I was mining with a bunch of RTX 3080s and RTX 3090s, the electricity cost (admittedly) was about $20/month per card. Running a 70B model takes 3-4 cards. Assuming you're pushing these cards to their extreme max, it's going to be $80/mo. Then again, ChatGPT is pretty awesome, and is likely running more than a 70B model (or I think I heard it was running an ensemble of models), so there's at least a ballpark.
  • sodality2 3y ago
    Batched inference makes these calculations hard - roughly takes the same amount of power and time for one inference vs 30 (as i understand it)
  • Sebb767 3y ago
    Datacenters probably do not pay retail rates on electricity, so they might actually run quite a bit cheaper (or more expensive if they use highly available power, but this seems like overkill for pure compute power).
    • 015a 3y ago
      Sure, but everything else about a data center is more expensive (real estate, operations people, networking, equipment). There's a reason AWS is so expensive.
  • 698969 3y ago
    Presumably your miner is running 24/7 throughout the month. Not the same for ChatGPT which would answer maybe 10 sessions (with multiple pauses between queries) tops from a single person in a day.