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Re:Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers... by krior on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @05:27PM (#45907745)
But maybe not for the price it actually takes to run these models. Afaik atm they are all subsidized.
Re:Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers... by criemen on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @05:47PM (#45907974)
I'd expect at least API pricing for all major players to be margin-positive. Positive ROI if you include model training cost? Maybe not, but in a hypothetical scenario where all capital for new model training goes away, the latest frontier model weights still continue to exist.

Subscription prices for claude code et. al? No idea.

Re:Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers... by Kuinox on Thursday November 13, 2025 @03:48PM (#45920339)
No, that's a rumor lots of people have been taking at face value. If you do the math, inferrence is very lucrative. Here someone deployed a big model, the costs are $0.20/1M token https://lmsys.org/blog/2025-05-05-large-scale-ep/