> Such intensive use of AI doesn't come cheap. In a post on X, LisanBench, an LLM benchmark evaluator, estimated that the output tokens alone would cost about $6.5 million at OpenAI's average consumer price. Including the far larger volume of input tokens, the post estimated the total could reach $10 million to $40 million.
When I worked at Google, we spent $100M in power on protein folding and drug discovery (this was long before AlphaFold). Never underestimate the willingness of smart rich people to invest in speculative science.
Yes. Maybe much more:
> Such intensive use of AI doesn't come cheap. In a post on X, LisanBench, an LLM benchmark evaluator, estimated that the output tokens alone would cost about $6.5 million at OpenAI's average consumer price. Including the far larger volume of input tokens, the post estimated the total could reach $10 million to $40 million.
https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-math-problem-solved-t...
That's their API pricing. There's no way they actually paid $15M in compute. I'd say much more likely it's in the order of $1M.
Who are you who is so wise in the ways of a private company's internal cost accounting
But think of all the IPO Monopoly money they just generated.
When I worked at Google, we spent $100M in power on protein folding and drug discovery (this was long before AlphaFold). Never underestimate the willingness of smart rich people to invest in speculative science.