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bunderbunder • yesterday at 10:32 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

What is the unit of measure for “intelligence per dollar”, and how do you measure it? Without a concrete definition, that first assertion is not even wrong.

I would also like to point out that “profitable on inference” is similarly meaningless, because it’s based on a figure that arbitrarily discards whatever bits of their operating costs they need to to get to the claim that they’re profitable on inference. Potentially including ones that can’t be ignored because they’re every bit as much a part of COGS as the actual inference is.


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rcxdude • yesterday at 11:07 PM

>What is the unit of measure for “intelligence per dollar”, and how do you measure it?

It's going to depend on the task (and this is prone to cheating), but you can get a decent idea by looking at task benchmarks and the cost of completing them.

I was inclined to agree but Anthropic's latest S-1 statement only includes a paper loss due to their value going up. They're objectively making money now, the only question is can they keep it up and can they grow enough to be able to pay the bills they've signed up for in future?

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