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OpenAI releases GPT-4.5 with ridiculous prices for a mediocre model (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago

Ed Zitron:

Sam Altman is talking about bringing online "tens of thousands" and then "Hundreds of thousands" of GPUs. 10,000 GPUs costs them $113 million a year, 100k $1.13bn, so this is Sam Altman committing to billions of dollars of compute for an expensive model that lacks any real new use cases. Suicide.

Also, $1.30 per hour per GPU is the Microsoft discount rate for OpenAI. Safe to assume there are other costs but raw compute for GPT 4.5 is massive and committing such resources at this time is truly fatalistic, and suggests Altman has no other cards to play