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AI'S PLUMMETING PRICES ARE A SOFTWARE STORY, NOT A HARDWARE ONE

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Local, open-weight models running on older commodity hardware are becoming more and more competitive with models on the frontier. This has big implications for what frontier labs will be able to charge for their biggest models. Many applications don't need the best models, so it's not worth paying the premium.