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320 points mfiguiere | 1 comments | 20 May 25 18:20 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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kleiba ◴[20 May 25 19:30 UTC] No.44045033[source]▶
These prices are nuts, in my opinion. It basically means that only companies can afford access to the latest offerings - this used to be the case for specialist software in the past (e.g., in the medical sector), but AI has the potential to be useful for anyone.

Not a good development.

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esafak ◴[20 May 25 19:32 UTC] No.44045045[source]▶
And I think it is a good thing. If there are buyers, it means they are getting that much value out of it. That there is a market for it. Competition will bring prices down.
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mschuster91 ◴[20 May 25 19:34 UTC] No.44045078[source]▶
> Competition will do its thing and bring prices down.

It won't. For now the AI "market" is artificially distorted by billionaires and trillion-dollar companies dumping insane amount of cash into NVDA, but when the money spigot dries out (which it inevitably will) prices are going to skyrocket and stay there for a loooong time.

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esafak ◴[20 May 25 19:37 UTC] No.44045111[source]▶
How will prices skyrocket when there is a flood of open models? Or are you talking about GPU prices? They're already high.
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1. mschuster91 ◴[20 May 25 20:45 UTC] No.44045737[source]▶
> How will prices skyrocket when there is a flood of open models?

Easy: once the money spigot runs out and/or a proprietary model has a quality/featureset that other open-weight models can't match, it's game over. The open-weight models cost probably dozens of millions of dollars to train, this is not sustainable.

And that's just training cost - inference costs are also massively subsidized by the money spigot, so the price for end users will go up from that alone as well.