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Initially, AI model providers sold tokens below infrastructure cost, creating negative value at the model layer while value accrued to chip and fabrication suppliers.

Dylan Patel · Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028 · 25 Aug 2026

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“So ultimately,”
“you had this negative value being created on the model layer almost, if you will, because they were selling the tokens for less than it cost them on the infra side and all the values being created used at the chip.”
“the fab.”
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