Comment by sho

Comment by sho 7 hours ago

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> and provide inference at a loss

You say this like it's some sort of established fact. My understanding is the exact opposite and that inference is plenty profitable - the reason the companies are perpetually in the red is that they're always heavily investing in the next, larger generation.

I'm not Anthropic's CFO so i can't really prove who's right one way or the other, but I will note that your version relies on everyone involved being really, really stupid.

elktown 5 hours ago

“like it's some sort of established fact” -> “My understanding”?! a.k.a pure speculation. Some of you AI fans really need to read your posts out loud before posting them.

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  • teodosin 4 hours ago

    You misread the literal first snippet you quoted. There's no contradiction in what you replied to.

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darkwater 6 hours ago

The current generation of today was the next generation of yesterday. So, unless the services sold on inference can cover the cost of inference + training AND gain money, they are still operating at loss.

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