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The Price of Intelligence Is Falling Rapidly

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  1. cs702 · · focus · HN ↗
    Yes, the price of inference is falling rapidly.

    What about the cost? Inference looks like a viable business model for those operators that have access to SOTA model and serving infrastructure, but the investment required to have it is enormous, and appears to be never-ending, because if an operator stops investing aggressively, its model and serving infrastructure quickly become non-competitive, and customers will quickly leave for alternatives.

    1. prpl · · focus · HN ↗
      I’d happily take Opus 4.8 xhigh at a reliable 10k tokens per second over oversubscribed SOTA models.

      At some point this will probably happen, but we’re not quite there yet.

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