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Are OpenAI and Anthropic losing money on inference?

(martinalderson.com)
507 points martinald | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 10:15 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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simonw ◴[28 Aug 25 16:20 UTC] No.45054022[source]▶
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/15/sam-altman-gpt5-launch-chat... quotes Sam Altman saying:

> Most of what we're building out at this point is the inference [...] We're profitable on inference. If we didn't pay for training, we'd be a very profitable company.

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1. noodlescb ◴[28 Aug 25 17:38 UTC] No.45054858[source]▶
Except these tech billionaires lie the most of the time. This is still the "grow at any cost" phase, so I don't even genuinely believe he has a confident understanding of how or at what point anything will be profitable. This just strikes me as the best answer he has at the moment.