Comment by dgellow
4 days ago
That’s what I understand looking at what has been released, but it’s not really clear. The pricing is lower than I expected, I’m wondering what their margin is
4 days ago
That’s what I understand looking at what has been released, but it’s not really clear. The pricing is lower than I expected, I’m wondering what their margin is
By margin you mean how much money they're losing on each request to stay ahead of the curve while investments are still flowing?
I don't know, the CEO of Anthropic has openly said that each model by itself is profitable, they just reinvest everything into training more and more expensive models.
you think they're doing inference at a loss even with the API prices?
It just doesn't make sense to me that Opus 5 costs the exact same as Opus 4.8, my bet is that they simply subsidize Opus 5 more comparatively so it still looks as if they are making significant progress to keep investment dollars flowing, further inflating the bubble. I might be completely wrong but I trust nothing their CEO says, he's a habitual doom troll and will say whatever makes marketing sense.
I mean, yeah, either positive or negative margin, both are something i want to know