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What do you mean by subsidy? You mean cheap underpriced capital?
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The token cost per kWh. Plus the overall lifecycle cost of compute. End users are not picking up the tab yet
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Ah, I'd argue that's a symptom of cheap capital. Investors are willing to let the companies operate at losses on vague promises of future rewards
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I don’t think the frontier models are profitable yet.
Yet trillions of tokens are being processed daily.
At what economy of scale does this become profitable?
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it doesn't need to be if the government can print money and bail you out.
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Ok, but energy prices are also artificially high because of all the stifled development.
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The demand is vast but at what cost? I don’t think we found the equilibrium market clearing price for compute.
The subsidy is massive thus it’s distorting the market.