Why is everyone so mean? I believe the article delivered on its headline.

The author showed that no -large llm providers do not loose money on inference. Model training is not accounted for because that was not the point.

I personally felt that the maths calculations was a bit redundant, since after the maths part the same numbers are taken from open router pricing. But I think it is a matter of presentation.

I would have shown OR pricing first and then did the math. In that way it would have been as insightful, since it still showed that model providers do also make money and the reader would not have felt that he did maths he could have avoided :)

So, thanks to the author! Good job.

The feedback fro hn is overly harsh. Idk; It makes me sad how mean people have become. I guess the world is not in a great spot, but taking out anger on strangers will only make it worse.