Viral joke: Anthropic's $1 compute → $1.7 revenue gets roasted by airline economics
ShenRaphael · x · 2026-10-28
A viral joke skewers AI economics: Anthropic claims $1 of compute generates $1.7 of revenue, to which an airline retorts it makes $4 per $1 of fuel — "and we don't have to throw all our planes into the sea every six months." The jab targets AI companies' dependence on rapidly depreciating compute assets.
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