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Eji1700 • today at 12:07 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

> If they can do 25% margins,

This is the assumption we disagree on. They're net negative by an order of magnitude on most of their current customers. I don't see them flipping to break even + 25%.

Further you're assuming they can turn that on today, when they're still very clearly not ready. Every year the timeline gets worse.

Take them to 2% margin with 8 years to go and you're looking at needing 4.5t annual.

This is normally where I'd say "but 2% feels extreme..." and hedge in the middle, but like...the current pricing isn't even close to 25% margin, it's not even close to break even.


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orangecat • today at 1:42 AM

They're net negative by an order of magnitude on most of their current customers.

From the S-1, in the first 3 quarters of 2026 their revenue was $33.2B and compute costs were $18.8B. Inference is highly profitable, they "just" need more of it.