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AI's Adoption and Growth Truly is 'Unprecedented'
Monday June 2, 2025. 01:34 PM , from Slashdot
![]() ChatGPT reaching 800 million users in 17 months: unprecedented. The number of companies and the rate at which so many others are hitting high annual recurring revenue rates: also unprecedented. The speed at which costs of usage are dropping: unprecedented. While the costs of training a model (also unprecedented) is up to $1 billion, inference costs — for example, those paying to use the tech — has already dropped 99% over two years, when calculating cost per 1 million tokens, she writes, citing research from Stanford. The pace at which competitors are matching each other's features, at a fraction of the cost, including open source options, particularly Chinese models: unprecedented... Meanwhile, chips from Google, like its TPU (tensor processing unit), and Amazon's Trainium, are being developed at scale for their clouds — that's moving quickly, too. 'These aren't side projects — they're foundational bets,' she writes. 'The one area where AI hasn't outpaced every other tech revolution is in financial returns...' the article points out. '[T]he jury is still out over which of the current crop of companies will become long-term, profitable, next-generation tech giants.' Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/02/0114203/ais-adoption-and-growth-truly-is-unprecedented?utm_sourc...
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