inference

3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Sep 1, 2023 by Guido Appenzeller · across every show →

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Sep 1, 2023 neutral

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Appenzeller: LLM inference costs between a tenth and hundredth of a cent

“You know, if you run the numbers, like a large language model, you actually at a fraction of a cent, like a 10th of a cent or a 100th of a cent, somewhere in that ballpark. For the inference.”

Guido Appenzeller Sep 1, 2023 ▶ 8:33 The True Cost of Compute

Sep 25, 2023 bullish

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Amodei: AI inference will remain affordable over next 3-4 years

“I think my basic view is that inference will not get that much more expensive. The simple, you know, the basic logic of the scaling laws is that if you increase compute by a factor of n, you need to increase data by a factor of square root of n. And size the m…”

Dario Amodei Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 7:55 Improving AI with Anthropic's Dario Amodei

Nov 24, 2025 neutral

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Epoch AI: Most AI compute is spent on product inference, not training

“It does seem as if most compute gets spent on inference that companies don't so far regret like using to offer their products.”

Epoch AI Researcher Nov 24, 2025 ▶ 3:06 The 2045 Superintelligence Timeline: Epoch AI’s Data-Driven Forecast

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