HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

alastair1646

9 karma · joined May 13, 2026

submissionscomments
alastair1646··on Fertility rate dropped over 50% within 10 years in Argentina
If the global baby boom lead to all the technological and lifestyle improvements of the twentieth century, I’m getting a little nervous for them twenty first…
alastair1646··on Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users
I think the people that are saying that mean that the inference is massively profitable. From what I've seen, the margins are between 50 and 90% on an API call. It's the training that's very, very expensive!

As far as I understand, for both OpenAI and Anthropic, currently the majority of their GPUs are being used for training, with only a smaller portion being used for actual customer serving.