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Re:OpenAI and Anthropic Revenue Breakdown by silver_silver on Thursday October 03, 2024 @10:01AM (#41730900)
The true believers seem to think the compute and energy requirements will drop by an order of magnitude in the near future
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Re:OpenAI and Anthropic Revenue Breakdown by jckahn on Thursday October 03, 2024 @10:17AM (#41731044)
That didn’t go well for crypto.
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Re:OpenAI and Anthropic Revenue Breakdown by gerikson on Thursday October 03, 2024 @11:04AM (#41731447)
Crypto (at least proof-of-work) is purposefully designed to have rising per-unit production cost.
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Re:OpenAI and Anthropic Revenue Breakdown by caeril on Thursday October 03, 2024 @02:41PM (#41733586)
Inference is super cheap, and getting progressively cheaper.

Greenlighting training a new foundation model is very expensive, but is also a human decision that can be postponed based on available capital.

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