Absolutely, but at least in the pure / less applied fields, access to computation hasn't really been that critical. The more towards the pure and theoretical, less so.

But now you have people like Gowers and Tao, pure mathematicians, hyping up what the SOTA models can do - and I figure they both are getting access and tokens us mortals can't afford.

So I guess the question is - will everything be as expensive as applied fields?