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  • Fizz@lemmy.nztoTechnology@lemmy.worldXbox is ditching Microsoft's Copilot AI
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    14 hours ago

    So annoying seeing these microslop retards getting praise for making the most basic obvious decisions half a decade to late. The last muppet absolutely wrecked the brand in the dumbest most out of touch way. This new lady has got a hard road ahead and i dont think she can do the classic Microsoft strategy of dumping money into exclusive games to force people onto platform. It won’t work anymore there are way to many games.













  • Fizz@lemmy.nztoTechnology@lemmy.worldAI's Economics Don't Make Sense
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    6 days ago

    They’re kinda past that phase and now need to show that they have sustainable revenue and user growth. From all the numbers I’ve seen they(open ai, Gemini, anthropic) have crazy numbers. Hundreds of millions of users paying $50 a month. It’s not enough to cover training but it covers inference very nicely.

    Then with agent bullshit they’ve managed to turn 1 prompt into 12 and bill the user for that extra so it’s even more profitable than the monthly subscriptions.


  • Fizz@lemmy.nztoTechnology@lemmy.worldAI's Economics Don't Make Sense
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    6 days ago

    The economics for daily use of inference seem to make sense. The cost of inference is highly profitable. The margins on inference around 80%. The lost money from power users is made up but the average user who doesn’t user their tokens. They lose money on the free inference given away but that’s marketing and getting used to people having the product there as a crutch. It’s not the best business model but they can change it at any time and have vc cash to burn.

    What doesn’t make sense is recouping the investment cost of model training and building new data centers. Because the moat on a new model doesn’t last long enough to recover its training cost.