@pythianism says many little-known inference startups reaching $100M+ in annual revenue are reselling compute they booked in advance, without owning GPUs, and calls it "not a real business." @vaibhavbetter asked who their customers are, what thei...
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Debate: inference startups hitting $100M+ ARR may just be reselling prebooked compute
@pythianism says many little-known inference startups reaching $100M+ in annual revenue are reselling compute they booked in advance, without owning GPUs, and calls it "not a real business." @vaibhavbetter asked who their customers are, what thei...
@pythianism says many little-known inference startups reaching $100M+ in annual revenue are reselling compute they booked in advance, without owning GPUs, and calls it "not a real business." @vaibhavbetter asked who their customers are, what their gross margins look like, and how much of the growth is VC money...
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