Comment Comment by skerit > The major providers are unprofitable after you add in the training and research costs and other overheadsThe very short lives of all these models also factor in.I think the funny thing is the more inference, the more tokens a specific version of a model spits out, actually does make it more profitable.But somehow a lot of people truly think that each token generated increases the cost of OpenAI/Anthropic/... and shout bloody murder about "subsidies"And I'm certain there are people out there that actually think the API prices of OpenAI and Anthropic somehow equal their electricity costs. parent skerit 11 days ago
The very short lives of all these models also factor in.
I think the funny thing is the more inference, the more tokens a specific version of a model spits out, actually does make it more profitable.
But somehow a lot of people truly think that each token generated increases the cost of OpenAI/Anthropic/... and shout bloody murder about "subsidies"
And I'm certain there are people out there that actually think the API prices of OpenAI and Anthropic somehow equal their electricity costs.