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JumpCrisscrosstoday at 4:37 PM3 repliesview on HN

Profitable without Capex, i.e. gross margin. Inference is included in COGS. Capex (training) is not. That's reasonable.


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icedchaitoday at 5:00 PM

Is it really capex though? New models are being constantly trained, released at least quarterly, while old ones become obsolete. Training costs vary, but never disappear.

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cmdlitoday at 4:45 PM

This also includes revenue sharing with distribution partners, which should probably be in COGS.

freejazztoday at 4:48 PM

Isn't training necessary for the end-product? How is it not a cost to generate the output if you can't generate the output without having done the training? Seems more like saying that a car is profitable product when you don't have to account for the steel that its made from. Seems completely disingenuous.

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