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jiggawattsyesterday at 9:41 PM1 replyview on HN

> cost of $15m

The retail price is not the cost.

Not to mention that the exponential plummeting cost of tokens means that that $15 million will be a "pocket change" within a decade or less: https://a16z.com/llmflation-llm-inference-cost/


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abathologisttoday at 12:16 AM

> The retail price is not the cost.

True. The cost is probably much higher, since they are still subsidizing as part of the first phase of the enshitification playbook.