McCormick: OpenAI recouped all GPT-4 training costs and more
Packy McCormick · The Secret Economics Controlling OpenAI, Anthropic, and the AI Boom · Feb 18, 2026 · at 4:13
Packy McCormick discusses the return on investment of frontier model training at AI labs.
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“GPT four is the really instructive is the really instructive example because I believe that model costs like a hundred million dollars to train, and it was really expensive at the time, but then very quickly they were on a multi-billion dollar run rate, and it was very clear that based on the inference margin and subscriptions to chat GPT pro that they made all the money back from GPT four And more.”
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