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Re:AI's Affordability Crisis by solidasparagus on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @12:36PM (#48647570)
Serving the API is profitable. They are unprofitable because of R&D (and maybe subscription costs?). If they can continue to find access to R&D capital, there is space to reduce API costs.
Re:AI's Affordability Crisis by dns_snek on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @01:16PM (#48648140)
Nuclear energy is really cheap too... as long as you ignore CapEx, would you like to invest?
Re:AI's Affordability Crisis by HDThoreaun on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @04:02PM (#48650520)
Marginal cost of nuclear is huge. Marginal cost of inference is much smaller. Capex in nuclear isn’t a fixed cost, it is the marginal cost.
Re:AI's Affordability Crisis by dns_snek on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @08:15AM (#48658565)
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Re:AI's Affordability Crisis by HDThoreaun on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @12:34PM (#48662353)
The labs don’t have to stop r and d to become profitable. They just need more customers. This strategy doesn’t work in nuclear. Building a nuclear plant doesn’t mean you can scale it up to serve the whole world. Building an ai model does.
Re:AI's Affordability Crisis by dominotw on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @01:02PM (#48647943)
how do you have access to their financials? are you an insider?

Edit: to the commenter below . It was widely reported that these companies were unprofitable 1 from last year. I am asking question to this specefic comment because they made a very specific claim about part of plan thats profitable . something only an insider would know.

1. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-anthropic-profitability-e...

Re:AI's Affordability Crisis by mh- on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @01:12PM (#48648089)
I'm curious why you didn't pose this question to the grandparent commenter, who first asserted the opposite?
Re:AI's Affordability Crisis by zyuiop on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @02:45PM (#48649522)
The amount of capital they need to raise, despite the claimed revenue, indicates that they spend more than they gain, which is by definition unprofitable.