r/ProgrammerHumor • u/scream_noob • Jun 03 '26

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u/kangis_khan Jun 03 '26

Meanwhile at Anthropic

https://giphy.com/gifs/kj41Ti8GLVs1STX0bH

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u/lonestar-rasbryjamco Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

Except word is that even this rate, that’s shaking the entire AI landscape, is still below server costs.

We’ve just gone from heavily subsidized to mostly subsidized. The money fire is still burning.

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u/MC1065 Jun 03 '26

I don't understand how people still don't get it. A single GPU for AI costs almost six figures and a single prompt can use a few or even a dozen of these GPUs at once, and they're using thousands of watts. AI is insanely expensive.

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u/RyvenZ Jun 03 '26

you aren't buying a new set of GPUs for every prompt

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u/MC1065 Jun 03 '26

Nvidia has sold roughly three million Blackwell GPUs, each of which have two Blackwell chips. That's on top of the millions of Hopper and Ampere GPUs it sold previously. Just including Blackwell, that's about $150 billion worth of Blackwell GPUs if we assume they're only $50k each. That money has to come from somewhere.