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> economically unviable to… run

Didn’t DeepSeek just disabuse us of that notion?

> …with overall revenue of US$38 per GPU-hour (at valley pricing)

Revenue by definition does not include operating costs

Yeah but you can look up how much it costs to rent a GPU, unless you think all those companies are also losing money.

At the top end B300s are $9/hr from RunPod. Now think about large volume discounts etc

Problem is, OpenAI is maintaining a (slight) edge over DS seemingly only by being extremely inefficient.