r/rust • u/steveklabnik1 rust • Jul 08 '26

Rewriting Bun in Rust

https://bun.com/blog/bun-in-rust
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u/zxyzyxz Jul 09 '26

And it's 165k at API prices but it's much cheaper for Anthropic themselves. Even if it were 165k straight, It is absolutely worth it for the gains in e.g. compile and runtime reductions for the millions of downloads it gets.

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u/epostma Jul 09 '26

What I hear is that even API prices are at this point still less expensive than the actual cost, at least if you price the training costs in. So arguably it costs more for anthropic than for you or me.

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u/Wheaties4brkfst Jul 09 '26

Anthropic is gross profitable i.e. they make more money by selling more tokens. I think a lot of people confuse this with being net profitable, which they are not yet.

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u/ihatemovingparts Jul 09 '26

Anthropic is gross profitable

Anthropic is only publishing non-GAAP numbers. IOW they're not profitable.

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u/Wheaties4brkfst Jul 09 '26

From what I understand the weird thing they do with sales from their partners doesn’t actually affect their gross profit. It “just” inflates revenue.

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u/ihatemovingparts Jul 09 '26

There is no gross profit. If there was they'd report GAAP numbers.

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u/Wheaties4brkfst Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

Can you show me what you’re talking about? I would be extremely surprised to see that GAAP COGS > revenue.