Video scraping: extracting JSON data from a 35 second screen capture for less than 1/10th of a cent https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/17/video-scraping/

axleyjc

@simon Are you also considering that the low costs are illusory? They are artificially low either because they are subsidized by VC money or in Google's case, advertising revenue. Openai is bleeding $ and not making a profit. Just given the energy and hardware costs, the current prices are unsustainable.

There's a serious risk that companies who have hard dependencies on cloud genai will get a big surprise bill down the road or have to pivot to a local model that's not as good.

Simon Willison

@axleyjc I think about that all the time! It's one of the reasons I've been hesitant to committing to building substantial things on Gemini that assume the price will stay constant