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sothatsittoday at 8:27 AM1 replyview on HN

Inference costs scale linearly with usage. R&D expenses do not.

That's not to mention that Dario Amodei has said that their models actually have a good return, even when accounting for training costs [0].

[0] https://youtu.be/GcqQ1ebBqkc?si=Vs2R4taIhj3uwIyj&t=1088


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Eisensteintoday at 10:08 AM

> Inference costs scale linearly with usage. R&D expenses do not.

Do we know this is true for AI?

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