Comment by xienze

1 day ago

It's very simple, if you just assume they never have to spend money on training ever again, they're wildly profitable.

Compute is by far not the only cost associated with running a service, so, no?

  • Being sarcastic here. The usual argument everyone brings up "inference is extremely profitable, checkmate AI skeptics!" while dismissing the black hole that is training.

  • Are they doing the standard SV thing of pretending employee stock comp is free?