The cost is decreasing quickly, mostly because the labs stopped competing on quality. At the same time, the costs are enormous, and all labs are very openly subsidizing usage hoping to get enough scale to be profitable (while 1 of them has suspicious unity numbers and can be hiding negative marginal income).
Also, it's impossible that they become cheaper than specialized software. Or even as cheap as them. It's still possible that they become cheap enough that it doesn't matter.
how is this nonsense still so persistent? There's piles and piles of evidence that inference has massive gross margins at api pricing. what are you actually talking about?
IKR?? The problem with the discourse is that there are still people who believe in this version of conspiracy theory. You can now see the reason for why I posted the original comment. There are people who believe in both extremes - strange world
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Then we have these articles that say tokens will get so cheap that labs won’t know how to make profit.
Who is correct?
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Also, it's impossible that they become cheaper than specialized software. Or even as cheap as them. It's still possible that they become cheap enough that it doesn't matter.
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