With optimizations and new hardware, power is almost a negligible cost that $5/month would be sufficient for all users, contrary to people's belief. You can get 5.5M tokens/s/MW[1] for kimi k2(=20M/KWH=181M tokens/$) which is 400x cheaper than current pricing even if you exclude architecture/model improvements. The thing is currently Nvidia is swallowing up a massive revenue which China could possible solve by investing in R and D.

[1]: https://developer-blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/0...