[dagmx]

You’re still focused about training :)

training doesn’t matter if inference costs are high and people don’t pay for them

[whimsicalism]

but inference costs arent high already and there are tons of hardware companies that can do relatively cheap LLM inference

[dagmx]

Inference costs per invocation aren’t high. Scale it out to billions of users and it’s a different story.

Training is amortized over each inference, so the cost of inference also needs to include the cost of training to break even unless made up elsewhere