It’s hard not to talk about Iran when you talk about the economy. Iran has been the enemy of the US my entire life. In 1980, the song Bomb Iran was a top 10 hit. They kidnapped Americans. Can you imagine if they took our embassy workers hostage now? What you’re seeing today is small in comparison. They’re greatly outmatched. China and Russia are not going to help them. Fifteen percent of the people in Israel are Russian, and Putin has already said there are too many Russians in Israel to help Iran—he’s staying out of it. Iran said they’ll shut off the shipping strait, which would crush China’s trade, and China is not going to be happy.
So while these types of world tensions aren’t nothing, I’m a buyer here on all major dips. This will not affect commerce in the US. The tariffs are a much bigger deal than Iran when it comes to the economy. The other problematic thing is Bitcoin. It folds like a scared teenager every time there’s an issue—even more than the stock market. It was supposed to act like gold, but it doesn’t. Other than the non-inflationary case, it’s not what I hoped it would be. I see much better returns in the stock market, and gold seems to have secured the role as the go-to asset for flight to safety.
They usually say “sell in May and go away,” but this spring and summer have been the opposite. Domain sales have been great too. I hope we overcome these Iran and tariff issues and start to fly.
No Links but Interesting Take Away
I recently read this article, which showed the cost to produce the results in AI is much more than users are paying for the results. The input token is the price we’re paying and the output is what it actually costs to get the output. The costs are eaten by the LLMs to gain market share. The model is unsustainable, but we assume they are hoping the costs come way down to make it a profitable model. The founders of Open AI have said they will need to get to $100B in annual revenue to break even and currently are at $5B. Which getting to $5B was already a record for fastest to that amount of ARR. We used to think Amazon was crazy for running so unprofitably for so long, and it turned profitable at $5B back in 2003. Investors are assuming the results will be the same.
Quote of the Day: “Iran has always been a country with a rich culture and a proud people, but its government has chosen a path of confrontation.“ –Barack Obama
Domain of the Day Sunergy.com We loved this one on Sherpa. Will push $10K IMO
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TheKnob.com Sounds like a golf course or a restaurant
Bitz.com Already at $5500. Bitcoin
BuyTuna.com Tuna is probably the most purchased fish in the world right? I looked it up, it is
BoostCode.com Basically what AI does
Jerry.me Some guy named Jerry will pay $500 for a cool email
Navibots.com AI agents
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SaveVid.com A ton of backlinks. I use scrape social video tools every day
Namejet
Magiq.com The IQ ending has it over $10K
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TravelWell.com What money gets you. High end travel site
GuestHome.com Rental property market
APIBox.com API are the future because they are needed for AI to function
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Eliminator.io Reserve met and going to a new home
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Lerp.ai Fun name. Should go cheap if reserve isn’t crazy
Flats.ai Apartments is Europe. BIN now at $1125
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KEO.ai Coming up. Like this one a lot
Sedo
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WS.be DYOD but I think this is regular renewal
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Download.be Torrent site coming soon
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Godaddy Domains with Bids
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UrbanLuxe.com Taken in 35 extensions
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Input and output pricing are not what we pay vs what it costs them.
Input pricing is how much you pay for what you say to the LLM. If you have a short prompt it costs you less than a really long prompt.
Output pricing is how much you pay for what the LLM says back to you. If it writes you a poem it costs you less than if it writes you an essay.
These are prices to use their API. It doesn’t have anything to do with using their websites or how profitable they are.
Appreciate the info. After reading that article what kind of information shows that they’re losing money since I read it wrong?
This is the key info showing how much of the cost is being subsidized.
Subsidy Calculation
Using cloud hosting costs and performance assumptions:
Cloud server cost (8x H200): $42.40/hour (after 50% enterprise discount)
Total Server Throughput: 385 tokens/sec * 8 GPUs = 3080 tokens/second
Effective throughput (60% batching efficiency): 1,848 tokens/second
Tokens per hour: 6,652,800
Calculated cost per 1M tokens: ~$6.37
Input Token API price (GPT-4o-mini): $0.60
Estimated subsidy rate ~90%
The provider is, in effect, paying for over 90% of the cost of every token a user processes through this API.
The article about AI costs is timely. I’ve been thinking about the incredible value that I get out of my Claude Max subscription ($200/mo.) – which is undoubtedly the best money I spend.
It’s an absolute given that, 1-2 years from now (maybe much, much sooner), that subscription will jump to $750, $1,000, or even $1,500/mo. As soon as the smoke clears and there’s the (inevitable) consolidation in the space, that’s what’s coming, across the board.