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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: 0.204s | source
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caminanteblanco ◴[28 Aug 25 14:58 UTC] No.45053030[source]▶
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
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1. red2awn ◴[28 Aug 25 17:58 UTC] No.45055059[source]▶
It also didn't take into account a lot of the new models are reasoning models which spits out a lot of output tokens.