> If you get close in output quality, then does that matter?

When you're trying to estimate/infer the costs of serving the tokens and even include the cost of training the weights in order to output tokens then yeah, why wouldn't that matter?

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jvuygbbkuurx 7 hours ago | parent [-]

That only matters if you are an investor not if you are a consumer.

	▲	embedding-shape 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Well, or if you're participating in a discussion on HN where the sub-topic happens to be "if labs are subsidising tokens on API pricing" and literally the cost of serving the tokens is relevant to the sub-topic people are trying to discuss...
	▲	solenoid0937 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Consumers want better models too, of course it matters