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Comment by bfirsh

Free usage usually goes in sales and marketing. It's effectively a cost of acquiring a customer. This also means it is considered an operating expense rather than a cost of goods sold and doesn't impact your gross margin.

Compute in R&D will be only training and development. Compute for inference will go under COGS. COGS is not reported here but can probably be, um, inferred by filling in the gaps on the income statement.

(Source: I run an inference company.)

parent bfirsh 1 year ago

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