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Comment by SecretDreams

3 days ago

Improvements in LLM efficiency should be driving hardware to get cheaper.

I agree with everything you've said, I'm just not seeing any material benefit to the statement as of now.

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sothatsit  3 days ago

Inference costs falling 2x doesn’t decrease hardware prices when demand for tokens has increased 10x.

  • PaulHoule  3 days ago

    It's the ratio. If revenue goes up 10x you can afford 10x more hardware if you can afford to do it all.

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