Models drop in price x10 each year. Us, common folk, getting access to these kinds of models is just a matter of time.

Is that true though? Having to pay some $200 a month for a max account of whatever kind doesn't seem to be cheaper to me at all?

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scarmig 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

$200/month for an LLM with the capability to fully automate my job is extremely cheap. Of course, even with a high thinking budget we don't have that yet, but if we see it at any cost in 2026, I'll be expecting to be forced into retirement by 2030.

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andy12_ 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

When I say 10 times cheaper, I mean when comparing models of the same capabilities. The kind of performance you get now for a 200$ subscription, a year ago probably would have costed 2000$.

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zeroonetwothree 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

I don’t believe that current models are 1000x better than the initial ChatGPT release. What metric are you using?

	▲	andy12_ 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		You don't? Now I use Gemini to code and optimize CUDA kernels. When I first used GPT3 in the OpenAI playground I was extremely impressed when I managed to get it to output a hello world program in C.

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jaggs 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I understand what you're saying. However I'm not sure it's that germane when we're talking about whether or not the current $200 subscription fee is actually delivering value for money, or whether AI giants are manipulating performance to gain marketing points.

	▲	abm53 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		I assume the original reply was addressing the “never” in this specific point: “The fact is most ordinary mortals never get access to a fraction of that kind of power”

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LunaSea 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Since previous generations of models get aggressively retired the cost reduction essentially never gets passed down to the customer.

A certain amount of input and output tokens doesn't cost 10x less than before.