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Comment by hattmall

5 months ago

It's cheap now because Google is subsidizing it, no?

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vrosas  5 months ago

Spoiler: every model is deeply, deeply subsidized. At least Google's is subsidized by a real business with revenue, not VC's staring at the clock.

  • panarky  5 months ago

    It's cheap because it's a Flash model, far smaller and much less compute for inference, runs on TPUs instead of GPUs.

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