Are OpenAI and Anthropic losing money on inference?

Ok, one issue I have with this analysis is the breakdown between input and output tokens. I'm the kind of person who spend most of my chat asking questions, so I might only use 20ish input tokens per prompt, where Gemini is having to put out several hundred, which would seem to affect the economics quite a bit

Yeah, I've noticed Chatgpt5 is very chatty. I can ask a 1 sentence question and get back 3-4 paragraphs, most of which I ignore, depending upon the task.

Same. It acts like its output tokens are for free. My input output ratio is like 1 to 10 at least. Not counting "Thought" and it's internal generation for agentic tasks.

It may hurt them financially but they are fighting for market share and I'd argue short answers will drive users away. I prefer the long ones much more as they often include things I haven't directly asked about but are still helpful.

It also didn't take into account a lot of the new models are reasoning models which spits out a lot of output tokens.

Switch to Robot personality

I haven’t used it without customization, but I find it follows my brevity user instructions more strictly.