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1. gradus_ad · 1790701889 · focus · HN ↗

   Ominous for the industry and investors that token price is becoming the main battleground. Could be Anthropic's rationale for IPOing this year.

   1. jorblumesea · 1790702930 · focus · HN ↗

      This is literally the plan, open weight models are something like 60% of token spend, and it will get worse. many companies now have model gateways where you can slot in cheaper models via cli for cheaper. we've been using glm 5.x and it's pretty close to SOTA frontier models.

      it's also why there have been so many calls for regulation and slowdowns.

      1. LeBit · 1790705545 · focus · HN ↗

         Yup.

         I see posts about OpenAI and Anthropic latest and don’t even care looking at what they do better. I just read the comments here.

         I use DS4.1 Flash and GLM 5.3 Flash, pay peanuts per day and get more than acceptable results.

         1. nozzlegear · 1790708457 · focus · HN ↗

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      2. 0cf8612b2e1e · 1790707560 · focus · HN ↗

         There is already tooling to automatically pick models within an organization. Eventually it could be as easy as flipping a switch in group policy that forces everyone to switch to the cheaper models.

         Insane pricing pressure on the horizon. Even if big companies will not go with open weight models, the threat will be ever present that they can instantly flip flop on providers.

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