Top OpenAI researchers are spending $7-8k a day on Codex, and that's increasing "on an exponential" 🤯 (that's a run rate of $2-3M per year)

Or, to put it another way: Fable 5.1 usage for 3 hours.

$8k a day sounds insane only until you compare it to the cost of the researchers' time

$8k in net cost or how much they charge for equivalent token API use?

whoever approves that expense report deserves a raise too

Sounds like alot, but its just the top 1% in the company using that much. They're definitely using the highest end models, this work is then being using to advance the next models. In a multi trillion follar market, the top 1% spending that much a day on Codex kinda makes sense.

the $7-8k/day is the bill. I'd want cost per merged PR before copying it. is that one researcher on one key, or a shared org bucket?

that's an incredible level of dog-fooding that all companies should aspire to

Asking how to make this S1 airtight??

$7-8k a DAY?? and it's still accelerating 🚀 My own API bills hurt way less than that, wild times for AI

That's pretty wild, must be like Astra with very high thinking, and probably Fast Mode too, plus LOTS of subagents... Tbh I'm sure the subagents add up fast. And you don't need dozens of them to center a div; their work is probably a little different than the average user lol

Perhaps someone out there is using Astra xhigh to sort their massive email inbox between doing actual work 😩

niggas make us pay and they use it for free