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Are OpenAI and Anthropic losing money on inference?

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507 points martinald | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 10:15 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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bcrosby95 ◴[28 Aug 25 15:15 UTC] No.45053249[source]▶
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.
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1. solarkraft ◴[29 Aug 25 02:28 UTC] No.45059393[source]▶
I haven’t used it without customization, but I find it follows my brevity user instructions more strictly.