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Apr 23, 2023

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

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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.

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