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Isn't openAI already profitable on inference? I understand training is still costly, but it's not unimaginable for it to turn profitable as well if you think b
by saxenaabhi 11mo ago
Isn't openAI already profitable on inference?
I understand training is still costly, but it's not unimaginable for it to turn profitable as well if you think believe they'll generate trillions in value by eliminating millions of jobs.
- zerosizedweasle 11mo agoNo, inference is actually pointing to them being economically unviable. https://www.ft.com/content/fce77ba4-6231-4920-9e99-693a6c38e7d5 https://www.ft.com/content/fce77ba4-6231-4920-9e99-693a6c38e...
- hnfong 11mo agoIf you eliminate ONE job and let's say the job pays $100K, in theory at most $100K goes instead to AI revenue. In practice it's a lot less, nobody is going to move everything to AI if it's just a 10% saving. So, to get a trillion in value, you'd have to eliminate many tens or even hundreds of millions of jobs.
- saxenaabhi 11mo agoYeah, I think high tens of millions of jobs would be eliminated. Most employers are seat warmers anyways.
- hattmall 11mo ago>Isn't openAI already profitable on inference? I don't believe this has been the case or claim at all. At best they have recognized some limited use cases in certain models where API tokens have generated a gross profit.
- Gigachad 11mo agoThey won’t generate trillions because there are several companies all competing and will undercut each other to win users.
- NoGravitas 11mo ago> Isn't openAI already profitable on inference? Probably not, but the numbers they've released are too opaque to tell.