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Re:Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate ... by wesammikhail on Sunday April 12, 2026 @10:11AM (#47739884)
source?
Re:Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate ... by KaoruAoiShiho on Sunday April 12, 2026 @10:14AM (#47739935)
Re:Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate ... by wesammikhail on Sunday April 12, 2026 @11:12AM (#47740667)
I've seen sources like this before. It's all hearsay and promo. I was asking for any publicly available verifiable information regarding the cost of inference at scale. I haven't seen any such info personally which is why I asked.

I'm dying to see S-1 filing for Anthropic or OpenAI. I don't actually think inference is as cheap as people say if you consider the total cost (hardware, energy, capex, etc)

Re:Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate ... by KaoruAoiShiho on Sunday April 12, 2026 @01:17PM (#47742128)
Well they're not public yet so you'll have to put up with rumors. But the numbers are available for companies like DeepSeek say they have an 80% profit margin, so it stands to reason OAI etc would do similar numbers considering they charge much more.
Re:Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate ... by caminante on Sunday April 12, 2026 @03:37PM (#47743551)
AFAIK,

1. the 80% margin from 2025 was theoretical,

2. they're relying on distillation/synthetic data for training,

3. and have been very opaque about cross-subsidization of R&D with their models.

The distillation alone adds a big asterisk for comparisons.

Re:Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate ... by KaoruAoiShiho on Sunday April 12, 2026 @04:02PM (#47743831)
Talking nonsense.
Re:Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate ... by caminante on Sunday April 12, 2026 @08:24PM (#47746057)
> you'll have to put up with rumors.

> But the numbers are available for companies like DeepSeek

You'd rather trust self-reported figures? LMAO

Re:Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate ... by caminante on Sunday April 12, 2026 @10:26AM (#47740086)
>OpenAI's compute margin, referring to the share of revenue excluding the costs of running its AI models for paying users

Huh?

The reddit summary comment makes no sense. How are they getting revenues without ads or paying customers?

"After" makes more sense.

FTA:

>The company has yet to show a profit and is searching for ways to make money to cover its high computing costs and infrastructure plans.