alt Hacker NewsI remain confident that most AI labs are not selling API access for less than it costs to serve the models.
If that's so common then what's your theory as to why Anthropic aren't price competitive with GPT-5.2?
I remain confident that most AI labs are not selling API access for less than it costs to serve the models.
If that's so common then what's your theory as to why Anthropic aren't price competitive with GPT-5.2?
I think it’s more instructive to look at providers like AWS than to compare with other AI labs. What’s the incentive for AWS to silently subsidise somebody else’s model when you run it on their infrastructure?
AWS are quite happy to give service away for free in vast quantities, but they do it by issuing credits, not by selling below cost.
I think it’s a fairly safe bet AWS aren’t losing money on every token they sell.