Comment by catmanjan
5 days ago
My understanding was that if everyone paid and used AI the companies would go into liquidation on energy bills etc
5 days ago
My understanding was that if everyone paid and used AI the companies would go into liquidation on energy bills etc
Energy bills wouldn't be the problem if everyone used AI, energy supply would be.
Are you sure? I thought tokens (or watts) were sold at such a loss that if current supply limits were reached they’d go broke
These companies are generally profitable for inference but it does not cover the cost of R&D (training).
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The entire marginal cost to serve AI models is paid for by the API costs of all providers by nearly every estimation. The cost not currently recouped is entirely in the training and net-new infrastructure that they're building.
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