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Re:OpenAI is too cheap to beat by p1esk on Thursday October 12, 2023 @07:04PM (#37864319)
You might be forgetting the cost to train a 1.8T model.
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Re:OpenAI is too cheap to beat by lmm on Thursday October 12, 2023 @10:09PM (#37865734)
The cost is peanuts compared to the potential profit. Apple/Google/Facebook could absolutely eat the costs for a skunkworks project to do that training and just sit quietly waiting on the yes/no from legal.
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Re:OpenAI is too cheap to beat by 0x008 on Friday October 13, 2023 @01:54AM (#37867204)
But the question is rather of the cost are peanuts compared to expected cash flow for the next 12 months.
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