[zamalek]

What they charge people says nothing about what it costs them. Off the top of my head, one confounding factor is trying to win back marketshare from Anthropic.

We will only know the actually situation once Anthropic goes public and we can look at their books.

[XenophileJKO]

"Neither Mr. Edison nor anyone else can override the well-known laws of Nature, and when he is made to say that the same wire which brings you light will also bring you power and heat, there is no difficulty in seeing that more is promised than can possibly be performed. To talk about cooking food by heat derived from electricity is absurd."

[stavros]

Wait, this person knew that the wire could bring you light, but not that it could bring you heat? Hadn't they noticed that light bulbs heat up?

[rcxdude]

It could be a reasonable argument from the point of view of scale: you need a lot more energy for cooking than for lighting (even with incandescent lightbulbs, though they were a fair bit dimmer and colder in the earlier days of them).

[stavros]

Sure, but then that's just scale, not the laws of nature.

[Gooblebrai]

Good quote. Doesn't apply well to this situation tho.

[rafaelero]

I think it's pretty safe to assume they are not losing money on inference.

[multjoy]

I think it’s safe to assume that they are bleeding cash.

[basilgohar]

Based on what? They haven't even IPOed.

[alex_sf]

It's silicon valley and they are trying to aggressively grow. Your baseline assumption should be the exact opposite.