Comment on Jack Dorsey's New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago$20k is what it would cost you or me, but it’s just free for them.
No it isn’t. This is not regular software where the bulk of the price is the licensing. With slope-as-a-service, the bulk of the price is the data center operation cost - which Anthropic is certainly not getting for free.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I mean there is a cost associated with it, just like there is a cost associated with having free soda in the break room, but it was free for the person doing the project. It’s absorbed into operational costs.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Considering how these companies are losing money because they subsidize these tokens - I doubt that cost is really absorbed.