| ▲ | saxenaabhi 9 hours ago | |
Isn't openAI already profitable on inference? I understand training is still costly, but it's not unimaginable for it to turn profitable as well if you think believe they'll generate trillions in value by eliminating millions of jobs. | ||
| ▲ | hnfong 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
If you eliminate ONE job and let's say the job pays $100K, in theory at most $100K goes instead to AI revenue. In practice it's a lot less, nobody is going to move everything to AI if it's just a 10% saving. So, to get a trillion in value, you'd have to eliminate many tens or even hundreds of millions of jobs. | ||
| ▲ | hattmall 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
>Isn't openAI already profitable on inference? I don't believe this has been the case or claim at all. At best they have recognized some limited use cases in certain models where API tokens have generated a gross profit. | ||
| ▲ | zerosizedweasle 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
No, inference is actually pointing to them being economically unviable. https://www.ft.com/content/fce77ba4-6231-4920-9e99-693a6c38e... | ||