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jqpabc123today at 3:52 PM2 repliesview on HN

Yes, but --- using something they call "adjusted operating income".

This is reportedly a sort of "Enron" accounting which excludes some really big expenses like revenue sharing, the cost of model training and hardware deploymments which are kept off the corporate balance sheet using "special finance vehicles".

https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/artificial-intelligence...


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sigmartoday at 4:18 PM

>This is reportedly a sort of "Enron" accounting which excludes some really big expenses like revenue sharing, the cost of model training and hardware deploymments

source? this seems false. reportedly the adjusted profitability includes inference and amortized training costs

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mixduptoday at 4:15 PM

It's really easy to be profitable when you exclude all of your expenses