That process is simple: They just put the bag of $100 bills on a scale. If heavy enough, then the model passes.

There is no way Microsoft built a good product for a change.

Well, as usual you are being an idiot. I like to put in original replacement parts when the part is a fire-risk, because for these there is a high chance of early warning and a recall. I am sure you prefer getting some "compatible" batteries off Aliexpress or something and burning down your house is fine with you.

ProTip: Trying to suppress a voice pointing out you are stupid does not make you any less stupid.

I think they will need to raise prices a lot more to get to "losing money".

Yes. That is by far the most likely outcome and it may not happen basically at any time.

These price increases are nowhere near the "full cost of AI". For that they need to go up like 10x or more of the prices before this price hike. Remember that they currently burn about 80% of the money invested and that they have been doing that for a few years. And they need to make up for that.

Yes. And they will have to increase prices by a lot more to become profitable. All of them will have to. There are already companies that find even moderate price increases will make human devs cheaper than AI, though.

Exactly. And as they are all currently burning money like crazy, all the others will increase prices too.

Probably because these people assumed in their boundless naivete that AI will remain cheap. My personal estimation is that they will have to increase prices by at least 10x to start to become profitable. I may be grossly underestimating this though.

...getting hooked on the stuff is free. But then the bill comes due. And the prices will have to go up a lot more than this small increase to make the LLM peddlers profitable. This price hike is just what they think they can get away with at the moment.

It is actually worse: Nuclear can go down at any time with no warning and stay down for months. A grid with more than 70% nuclear cannot be made stable. France can only afford its 73% nuclear because they are connected to the European grid. And France has been suffering because of their strategic stupidity, with them needing to buy at peak use and paying though the nose and having to pay for power off-loading (i.e. they need to emergency sell power at negative prices) as well because their nukes are too inflexible and a nuke that cannot get its power used has to SCRAM and then will stay down for months while the damage gets assessed.

Yep. No idea what is wrong with these people. They are really stuck in the 1970s and have not gotten the message that the world has moved on.

Obviously. Renewables plus storage are much more competitive than anything else now.

Never? At least they never did that to the best of my knowledge, and they seem to have an institutional policy of routinely breaking things that used to work. Unfortunately, there are a ton of people that ask for more punishment. Validates their feelings or something.