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Re:OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% wi... by mike_hearn on Monday October 26, 2026 @06:23AM (#50241605)
How can their revenue numbers match benchmarks from their inferencing code? Are they really claiming that they sell 100% of their capacity at all times, 24/7? Wouldn't they require a lot of queued batch traffic to achieve that? Or are they defining revenue in some weird way where what they mean is potential revenue?
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Re:OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% wi... by 332451b on Monday October 26, 2026 @12:12PM (#50246244)
I assume this is idealized somehow, given how close it is to DeepInfer numbers at 100% utilization. My point was more that there is seemingly a lot of margin to absorb underutilization, outages and other costs.
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