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ainchtoday at 1:08 PM2 repliesview on HN

Tokens can be sold at profit, but 70% of compute expenditure goes to R&D and model training[0]. Inference needs to cover all of that as well as being profitable in a vacuum.

[0] https://epoch.ai/data-insights/openai-compute-spend


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ml_basicstoday at 2:19 PM

this will change as inference demand increases (which is happening right now faster than many people expected)

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benjiro3000today at 1:14 PM

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