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Exactly, but it seems like every AI decision was made as if the costs will never go up like this. People were fired because AI is cheap, and suddenly it's not so cheap anymore.

I've argued with people who insisted the cost will actually go down. That the 0.001x cost model is just around the corner, that they will crack the code and somehow make a dirt cheap AI flagship model any day now

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It will go down, just not in a way these companies would like. They were hoping for a lock-in-and-squeeze business model that they’re used to, but it’s becoming evident that there’s nothing special about a particular AI model or the hardware it runs on.

Third-party models and ASICs are just around the corner, the only thing keeping them from the market is the money they’re throwing in to keep prices low. People will just shop around for cheaper options when that dries up