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ChatGPT could cost over $700k per day to operate

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Post by octopoc »

jermaustin1 wrote: post #30
pc_edwin wrote: post #15

This might sound tone deaf but thats seems extremely cheap to me. It means the cost range for chatGPT is between $300m - $500m per year. If the 100m users is accurate, it means they only need to convert low single digit percentage to paying users to break even. Now it makes sense why they chose to charge $20/m, I predicted much higher.

I have started incorporating ChatGPT into my side project. I'm not integrating it into software or anything like that, but using it as a tool for product ideas, product photo ideas, funny social media captions, figuring out the best hashtags to use, product tagging and categorization. It has proven to be a great way to get everything to around 70%, then send off to my assistant for the remaining 30% of polish. So at…

I've been using it for product ideas as well. Occasionally it's brilliant but sometimes it's so bad it's funny, like when it suggested Seven-Year Itch for a perfume brand.

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Post by maxfurman »

pluijzer wrote: post #51
pdksam wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

200k is too small, strong sde1s at Amazon get paid that much in hcol areas. Closer to 500k.

As a side, I am a bit shocked by these numbers. Is this an American thing? I understand myself to be good software engineer with good well rounded experience of 14+ years. Yet my income, in Europe, is really above 100k. What I am wondering, for those earning 500k, how big is your work load/stress. Would this be a 9-5 job you leave at the office when going home. Or does a job that earns so much consume your life?

FAANG salaries are so bloated because Bay Area housing costs are insane. Someone making 500k could put half or more of into their mortgage.

I've said it before on here, but I live very comfortably in Philly for a lot less than that.

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Post by twosdayz »

Dave3of5 wrote: post #9

Interesting numbers. That roughly equates to about $250 million per year plus I don't know how much training is costing them to keep the model up to date and suchlike. The company also has about 375 employees. I've no idea how much they get paid but I used $200k as a yearly cost and that comes to $75 million. That's about 3:1 cost of operating the services to paying employees. That seems quite high as I've never been…

Someone had posted their tax filings in a different OpenAI thread. Although this only starts at 2020, this may give some insight into their employee costs https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/810...

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Post by rvnx »

pc_edwin wrote: post #15

This might sound tone deaf but thats seems extremely cheap to me. It means the cost range for chatGPT is between $300m - $500m per year. If the 100m users is accurate, it means they only need to convert low single digit percentage to paying users to break even. Now it makes sense why they chose to charge $20/m, I predicted much higher.

This is cheaper than running Twitter which is a CRUD app

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Post by c0balt »

warent wrote: post #49
nathancahill wrote: post #41

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Yeah think of all the labor hours, how many people do they have back there typing up the answers?

And who pays the tiny people in my magic light box to draw the answers on the window?!

You, at least somewhat. They get soul shard futures and once you die can realize them to acquire a part of you soul.

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Post by lightbendover »

pluijzer wrote: post #51
pdksam wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

200k is too small, strong sde1s at Amazon get paid that much in hcol areas. Closer to 500k.

As a side, I am a bit shocked by these numbers. Is this an American thing? I understand myself to be good software engineer with good well rounded experience of 14+ years. Yet my income, in Europe, is really above 100k. What I am wondering, for those earning 500k, how big is your work load/stress. Would this be a 9-5 job you leave at the office when going home. Or does a job that earns so much consume your life?

I’ve been through both horror (endless 100 hour weeks) and bliss (just attending meetings and not really stressing about much of anything) in that range. It’s highly variable.
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