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		lelag on June 21, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GitHub Copilot is generally available Even if the model was FOSS, the infrastructure needed to run it would be costly. Given the cost of single GPT-3 codex query, it's very likely that Microsoft/Github is still taking a huge operating loss at 10USD per month.

az226 on June 22, 2022 [–]

Probably costs 3-4 times that to power the infra. They’ll make money back if they’re able to do several step changes of improvement in cost optimization.

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