Comment by mrandish

5 days ago

> The actual cost is going to drop 99% in ~4 years.

We have little visibility into current frontier model costs at mass scale. As a broad historical trend, tech costs tend to fall over longer time periods but your claim far exceeds Moore's Law rates in its heyday - and that heyday is long gone.

In 2021 TSMC announced it was increasing it's price per gate for new nodes for the first time in its history. In the past five years cutting edge nodes have delivered ~8-15% real-world performance gains on average at costs at least 10-20% more than the last node. If you're positing a string of unprecedented efficiency breakthroughs in LLM algorithms - such extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.