They are profitable on inference (at least anthropic). Inference is cheap, it’s not susbsidized. It’s training that’s expensive, but if the bubble really does pop then current open source models (which are pretty much sold at inference rate + small margin) will actually go down in price since the cost of hardware will have gone down (assuming less demand for GPUs). Considering that the current best open model is roughly one month behind, we won’t revert to pre-ai anywhere. It’s just too cheap for that.
Still, it’s lovely seeing people spreading misinformation based on something they saw on tiktok years ago. Keep up with the times or don’t spread outdated info.



Well that and the fact that they have a company to run and people to pay. Do you seriously believe inference is not profitable, despite evidence to the contrary being everywhere you look?