this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2026
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What is the actual “cost” after they buy the hardware, is that $1000 really pure power usage cost?
I'm curious as well. My knowledge is probably quite outdated, but from what I understood the training part is what's expensive and then querying the model is pretty cheap. Is it still true (or was it ever) that the generated answers on search engines are cheaper to generate than the actual search results?
It is sorta. Training is orders of magnitudes more intensive than inference, but we infer billions of times within a model generation.