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by 9cb14c1ec0 289 days ago
That can only be true if someone else is subsidizing Anthropic's compute. The calculation is simple: Annualized depreciation costs on the AI buildout (hundreds of billions, possibly a trillion invested) are more that the combined total annualized revenue of the inference industry. A more realistic computation of expenses would show the each model line very deeply in the red.