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If all frontier LLM labs agreed to a truce and stopped training to save on cost, LLMs would be immensely profitable now.

• AstroBen 1y ago
  That isn't what I've seen: https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/ https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
  • aurareturn 1y ago
    https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/17/sam-altman/#:~:text=Subscribe,2025%20at%2012:53%20am https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/17/sam-altman/#:~:text=Su... Also independent analysis: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=aurareturn&next=45961994 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=aurareturn&next=4596...
  • logicprog 1y ago
    Those are effectively made up numbers, since they're given to him by an anonymous source we have no way of corroborating, and we can't even see the documents themselves, and it contradicts not just OpenAI's official numbers, but first principles analyses of what the economics of inference should be[1] and the inference profit reports of other companies, as well as just an analysis of the inference market would suggest[2] [1]: https://martinalderson.com/posts/are-openai-and-anthropic-really-losing-money-on-inference/ https://martinalderson.com/posts/are-openai-and-anthropic-re..., https://github.com/deepseek-ai/open-infra-index/blob/main/202502OpenSourceWeek/day_6_one_more_thing_deepseekV3R1_inference_system_overview.md https://github.com/deepseek-ai/open-infra-index/blob/main/20... [2]: https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2025-06-02-llms-are-cheap/ https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2025-06-02-llms-are-ch...