Humans are very expensive, so the equation almost always falls against them.

It's not just salary, but also safety/labor regulation, legal risk, vacations, sick time, personal conflicts, HR, benefits.

Even when automation is more expensive on paper, it's generally still cheaper

It just got released, it shouldn't matter.

We know this model will be cheaper and faster with time.

And we have not even reached the timespan/timeframe were we have ASIC style models.

OpenAI has to do something which will beat Fable otherwise Anthropic won. China currently overtakes cars, pv, batteries and very soon silicon chip making, it has all the incentive to also take over AI.

It will be great when the price of compute/memory drops to normal level!