phcorcoran

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[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

According to Ed Zitron, AWS cost about $52 billion between 2003 and 2017 (adjusted for inflation), and became profitable after that. OpenAI did 13 funding rounds at a total of $180 billion and the signs are that they are burning through that capital at an accelerated pace and nowhere near profitable. The scale isn't quite the same

https://www.wheresyoured.at/premium-ai-isnt-too-big-to-fail/