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Are OpenAI and Anthropic losing money on inference?

(martinalderson.com)
507 points martinald | 2 comments | 28 Aug 25 10:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.491s | source
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pityJuke ◴[28 Aug 25 13:26 UTC] No.45051892[source]▶
From https://www.theverge.com/command-line-newsletter/759897/sam-..., Sam Altman said:

> “If we didn’t pay for training, we’d be a very profitable company.”

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1. cowl ◴[28 Aug 25 15:50 UTC] No.45053709[source]▶
that's true of any company. if they didn't pay for building the product, they would be very profitable.
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2. aworks ◴[29 Aug 25 23:32 UTC] No.45070570[source]▶
Not all companies have competent sales organizations.