Not wishing to do a shallow dismissal here, but I always assumed AI must be profitable on inference otherwise no one would pursue it as a business given how exp

Not wishing to do a shallow dismissal here, but I always assumed AI must be profitable on inference otherwise no one would pursue it as a business given how expensive the training is. It seems sort of like wondering if a fiber ISP is profitable per GB bandwidth. Of course it is; the expensive part is getting the fiber to all the homes. So the operations must be profitable or there is simply no business model possible.