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If revenue doesn't catch up with the cost of developing and running these huge LLMs then the only way to avoid an AI winter is to find a way to make them way cheaper to develop.

[infecto]

Inference costs are largely break even and profitable. Now yes there is absolutely questions on the training side.

You could turn off the switch today though and most of your leading models could keep the lights on.

[algorithmmonkey]

I keep seeing everyone guessing what the margin is on inference. You say that it's largely break even. We have this person in the thread claim 80% margin (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45462442).

These numbers are complete make believe.