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maplethorpetoday at 7:59 AM1 replyview on HN

Didn't OpenAI spend like 10 billion on inference in 2025? Which is around the same as their total revenue?

Why do people keep saying inference is cheap if they're losing so much money from it?


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mirzaptoday at 8:51 AM

When you have 800–900 million active users, no matter how cheap it is, your costs will be in the billions.

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