alt Hacker NewsPrices can go down while tokens sold increases so that profit increases. The labs number one goal right now is moving past software engineers so that every white collar worker in the country finds ai assistants indispensable. Speculation here but I think openAI/antrhopic api inference is insanely profitable, it just needs more volume to amortize the training costs.
> Speculation here but I think openAI/antrhopic api inference is insanely profitable, it just needs more volume to amortize the training costs.
Well, they just rent their hardware, so I'm not so sure. But they'll both be public soon and we should get that breakout in their cost structures, somewhat.