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What do you mean iffy? The major AI labs are gross profitable when selling access to inference. In addition, the best models have trillions of parameters and ar
by staplor 2mo ago
What do you mean iffy? The major AI labs are gross profitable when selling access to inference. In addition, the best models have trillions of parameters and are most efficiently served on large, expensive clusters and served to many concurrent users.
- wolttam 2mo agoThey make money on each token when you look at the electricity and interconnect fees, but no, I don’t think they’ve turned a profit on their Capex, even a little bit
- claytongulick 2mo ago> The major AI labs are gross profitable when selling access to inference. Do you have a good source for this?
- NorwegianDude 2mo agoWell, I can run some models that are better than some of the weaker and cheaper Anthropic models locally, like Haiku 4.5, and solve tasks that would cost ~4500$ every day in tokens, so yeah, they are definitely extremely profitable on inference.
- claytongulick 2mo agoAre you also paying 8,000 employees [1] and funding massive infrastructure [2]? [1] https://www.makerstations.io/openai-employee-statistics/ https://www.makerstations.io/openai-employee-statistics/ [2] https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/ https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
- cmiles8 2mo agoThat’s like saying an apartment building is “profitable” because the rent covers utilities while ignoring the real cost which is the mortgage on the capital cost of the building. It’s funky math and a good way to quickly go bankrupt.