alt Hacker NewsThere is zero evidence of this shift in pricing occurring. It’s still a dream which seems unlikely
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dylan604 • last Monday at 11:56 PM
It feels like this is the line people are using to justify the expense of compute capex
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koolala • last Tuesday at 2:52 AM
Dream? It is a nightmare that computers aren't getting significantly more efficient anymore.
News to me?
Opus 4.7 has all the signs of a smaller model distilled from a newer pretraining run... except a smaller price.
Flash 3.5 raised in price pretty meaningfully over Flash 3
GPT 5.4 got a small price bump over gpt-5.3-Codex/gpt-5.2, then gpt-5.5 doubled pricing over gpt-5.4
Even open weights isn't immune: Kimi K2.6 was originally priced higher despite openly being 2.5 + more post-training, same with GLM 5.1 vs 5
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All while rental prices are spiking month over month, and NVIDIA Inception discounted prices for buying are higher than undiscounted prices for buying 6 months ago...