OpenAI wants upfront cash for guaranteed AI capacity
AI + ML
OpenAI floats buy-before-your-try AI availability guarantee
Nice AI workloads you have going, it'd be a shame we ran out of stock
OpenAI is now offering its customers a guarantee that it will actually provide the service it's selling if customers need more AI sauce.
All that's required is an annual spending commitment.
AI is in short supply as demand – stoked by flat-rate subscriptions – races ahead of datacenter inference capacity. AI workloads require a lot of computing power, especially when they run for hours on end, a common scenario for AI agents. They require more computing power than OpenAI and its cloud partners can provide.
Promised datacenter construction is unlikely to address this shortfall any time soon, assuming those projects are actually completed at all.
The result has been thinly disguised rationing through usage limits, variable pricing, subscription restrictions, and token consumption arbitrage – swapping...
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