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The Extreme Cost of Training AI Models. (cdn.statcdn.com)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The latest releases ChatGPT 4o costs $600/hr per instance to run based on the discussion I could find about it.

If OpenAI is running 1k of those models to service the demand (they're certainly running more since queries can take 30+ seconds) then that's 200M/yr just keeping the lights on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's a lot, but what's their revenue?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

3.4bn is their gross - we have no idea what their operating costs are since they refuse to share them.

Some estimates say they're burning 8 billion a year.