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by btouellette 6 days ago
Your work is using personal subscriptions? If not a corporate client is probably paying per token via the API and you're just feeding money to them not sinking their bottom line.
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The per token costs are still dramatically subsidized. The major AI models are priced below cost especially when accounting for depreciation.

We live in the time of Uber Eats letting you pay 50 cents to hire a limousine that will deliver a burrito to your stoop.

> The per token costs are still dramatically subsidized. The major AI models are priced below cost especially when accounting for depreciation.

Not sure if we can confidently say that unless the first of these companies goes public.

Personal sub.