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Essay "Tokens Too Cheap to Meter" sparks debate over AI cost collapse
Essay argues AI token costs are collapsing toward zero
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Sep 22 11:44 AM
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A blog post at jyn.dev claims machine learning inference costs are falling by several orders of magnitude per year, driven by GPU power-efficiency gains (doubling roughly every two years) and improving inference engines, and predicts LLMs will become embedded computing infrastructure within one to two years and run locally at frontier quality within three to six.
“The price of using machine learning intelligence is decreasing by several orders of magnitude a year and shows no signs of slowing.”
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