[ExI] Just Running ChatGPT Is Costing OpenAI a Staggering Sum Every Single Day

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Just Running ChatGPT Is Costing OpenAI a Staggering Sum Every Single Day
The company is burning through cash.

<https://futurism.com/the-byte/chatgpt-costs-openai-every-day>
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Unbelievable Upkeep

ChatGPT's immense popularity and power make it eye-wateringly
expensive to maintain, The Information reports, with OpenAI paying up
to $700,000 a day to keep its beefy infrastructure running, based on
figures from the research firm SemiAnalysis.

"Most of this cost is based around the expensive servers they
require," Dylan Patel, chief analyst at the firm, told the
publication.
The costs could be even higher now, Patel told Insider in a follow-up
interview, because these estimates were based on GPT-3, the previous
model that powers the older and now free version of ChatGPT.
OpenAI's newest model, GPT-4, would cost even more to run, according to Patel.
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That doesn't mean that you can't run a version of ChatGPT on your desktop.
OpenAI is supporting thousands of simultaneous users using ChatGPT.

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