| > openai is subsidising their models so much that each year the keep doing it 20x and eventually reached 100x reduction If that's the truth, then originally they were subsidizing their models by the same factors. This is not a great argument no matter how you cut it. And even then I would need to see evidence that this is true. > all the investors are stupid and they still invest in openai despite unprofitability Much to the opposite, those people are very smart. OpenAI can be extremely unprofitable and they can still profit massively through an exit event. > employees of openai and anthropic who have claimed that the unit costs are not high are also lying Possibly? Especially if they are in the position to profit in the case of an exit event, they would have every incentive to paint a rosier picture about the company. > all other providers are in on the lie I have no idea who you are talking about. > the chinese models like Deepseek is also in on the lie by posting research that is not plausible As I previously stated, I have no idea if Deepseek is profitable. By the looks of things, neither do you. Mentioning Deepseek's research is a non-sequitur. > the fact that you can run models in your laptop today that beat previous years models is also not enough This has no bearing on the cost of inference. |