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Comment by rhdunn

9 hours ago

There's also things like training costs, spend on AI data centres and GPUs, R&D, sales and marketing, etc. See e.g. https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/anthropics-ipo-pros....

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ai-x  9 hours ago

Those are not marginal cost or unit economics

  • oblio  5 hours ago

    If the "fixed costs" kill you unit economics won't save you. Scare quotes because true fixed costs generally have a long shelf life. Right now AI models die every 6-9 months.

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