| ▲ | xienze 6 hours ago |
| It's very simple, if you just assume they never have to spend money on training ever again, they're wildly profitable. |
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| ▲ | iLoveOncall 6 hours ago | parent [-] |
| Compute is by far not the only cost associated with running a service, so, no? |
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| ▲ | lokar 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Are they doing the standard SV thing of pretending employee stock comp is free? | |
| ▲ | xienze 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Being sarcastic here. The usual argument everyone brings up "inference is extremely profitable, checkmate AI skeptics!" while dismissing the black hole that is training. | | |
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