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How much it costs to run OpenAI's ChatGPT per day
It is not the rumored $3m/day
Good Morning AI Runners
Here's what we've got for you today:
How much it costs to run ChatGPT per day (not $3m/day!)
Can ChatGPT get monetized?
How much it costs to keep ChatGPT running
ChatGPT is hosted on Microsoft's Azure cloud which currently charges $3 per hour for a single A100 GPU, and each word generated on ChatGPT costs $0.0003.
Considering that ChatGPT's responses typically contain at least 30 words, the cost of each response is at least one cent.
According to estimates posted online, OpenAI spends at least $100K a day or $3 million a month to keep ChatGPT Running.
Here's OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's reply to Elon Musk:
average is probably single-digits cents per chat; trying to figure out more precisely and also how we can optimize it
— Sam Altman (@sama)
7:46 AM • Dec 5, 2022
This takes us to our second topic of the day. Can ChatGPT get monetized?
Monetizing ChatGPT
With the CEO of OpenAI describing the computing costs as "eye-watering", they're surely considering monetization.
The question is, how will they do that?
We'll take one easy guess and leave the rest to you.
There are no *links to click* right now but this could be the first attempt at monetizing ChatGPT, embedding ads and links in the responses.
Given the chatbot's high daily usage (1 million+), coupled with its recommendations that are really relevant, it can begin bringing in enough money to cover costs and then some.
An example👇
Run The AI: PPPs
Pick up:
Photoshop Stable Diffusion Plugin by Abdullah Alfaraj (check it out here)
Pilot (play):
Query GPT-3 via a Slack Channel: “Anytime a new message is posted to a Slack channel, send it as a prompt to OpenAI GPT-3 and post the reply back to Slack as a threaded comment under the original message.”
created by Bill DAlessandro
Here’s a Zap template I call “SlackGPT” - let’s you query GPT-3 via a Slack channel in real-time:
— Bill D'Alessandro (@BillDA)
2:02 PM • Dec 21, 2022
Person:
Brett Adcock: Brett is building autonomous humanoid robots at his new company, Figure. With multiple exits under his belt this is an interesting follow @adcock_brett
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