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According the New York Times [1], OpenAI told investors that they're costs are increasing as more people use their product, and they are planning to increase th
by mikeocool 2y ago
According the New York Times [1], OpenAI told investors that they're costs are increasing as more people use their product, and they are planning to increase the cost of ChatGPT from $20 to $44 over the next five years. That certainly suggests that they're selling inference at a loss right now.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/27/technology/openai-chatgpt-investors-funding.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/27/technology/openai-chatgpt...
- karmakaze 2y agoMy bigger concern isn't the financial cost, it's that the amount represents a degree of energy expenditure. A flat rate might not be advisable and having usage-based pricing may limit energy waste. OTOH I don't know how much energy some of the other recurring things I consume monthly are either. Maybe we can have a service that's an LLM with shared/cached responses as well as training on its own questions/answers for the easy stuff. Currently my usage is largely as a better search engine as google has gotten so much worse than it ever was, though I imagine I'll find custom things it's useful for as well.