alt Hacker NewsI do mind, since I enjoy speaking freely without concern of my opinions being linked to my employment. I assure you companies like this exist. Profiting off of inference is not the hard part, it's frontier training that is prohibitively expensive. You're free to disregard my commentary if you want, of course.
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simoncion • yesterday at 4:05 PM
> Profiting off of inference is not the hard part, it's frontier training that is prohibitively expensive.
And given that Anthropic does both, it must make up its training costs by selling inference. jp57 was pretty clearly talking about Anthropic's flat-rate plans, rather than the flat-rate plans of companies that get to skip the most expensive part of the process.
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Why not just name one of those three competitors?