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Comment by visarga

5 days ago

> Frontier AI companies are selling at a loss.

There are huge economies to be had by batching requests and using lots of RAM for MoE (sparse models). You can't achieve that efficiency at batch size 1 on a single node.

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visarga

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asjir  5 days ago

Exactly, they put a lot of money into engineering and it does give results

eikenberry  5 days ago

Inference isn't the problem.

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