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Comment by EA-3167

1 day ago

Seriously, they’re trying to justify trillion+ IPO’s while setting piles of money on fire, prices aren’t going DOWN.

Today's frontier models will be tomorrows low-end option. I think whatever model you are using today will be less expensive to use a year or two from now.

  • Last year's o3 was more expensive than 5.5 is. Whatever model we are using now is probably be more expensive than next year's leading models will be.

    • Price per M/tokens is also a fuzzy metric when newer models reason longer, and then burn more tokens while doing so.

    • Isn't 5.5 a router, though? As in, some prompts get automatically sent to a cheaper model?

They aren't going down, but in the meantime they'll cover their ass by bribing their way into the S&P 500 and then use your 60 year old mother's 401k and teacher's pension to fund their risky capital expenditure.