SMRTR AIJun 28, 2026Daily.dev

AI inference is obviously profitable

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Despite claims that AI inference loses money, the math says otherwise. Frontier providers report 70–80% gross margins, and rough cost estimates back that up — about $1 per million tokens to serve, versus $4.50+ charged. Even if major AI labs collapse, inference itself remains profitable.

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