alt Hacker News> at a fraction of the cost
We'll see about that, long term. The billions and trillions being wasted right now to get the foot in the door need to be earned back somehow at some point...
"Nice company you have there, totally reliant on our AI tech. Oh by the way we gotta increase the rent again."
Doesn't really make sense as there are already open weight models that are close to frontier models, and the compute to run them isn't outrageously expensive, and every indication that it will only get cheaper over time as has been the strong trend in terms of $/outcome.