> How can you be sure

You are free to believe that they are doing all this. Or you can simply believe the intuition that models are getting cheaper by the day. I can run Gemma 4 31B from my laptop today.

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stymaar 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> Or you can simply believe the intuition

Sure, you can believe you intuition as much as you want, but telling strangers over the internet that they are wrong because “I trust my intuition” is… awkward.

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simianwords 2 hours ago | parent [-]

At some point it does come to intuition. Even if the companies IPO and share their financials, you can always argue that they might be lying.

	▲	stymaar 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Again, there's a difference between relying on intuition in your life (which we all do, lacking perfect information that would allow us to avoid relying on it), and telling someone they are wrong because your intuition says so.