It pains me to see so, so many dollars going to Anthropic. There is either massive inefficiency in there, or else its users are getting fleeced.

In cost-per-task, it's a 32x multiple Fable vs DS41. Either it really does cost them more electricity/gpu, or else they are succeeding convincing the masses that Anthropic's models are necessary for everyday tasks, when this is truly just not the case. Either way seems a tragedy.

Especially regrettable from my perspective, is the idea that to do computer programming in these modern times, you have to fork over an amount comparable to many people's monthly rent. Even if your employer is happy to direct their funds that way, we lose quite something when recreational coding comes with a substantial personal monetary cost.

https://artificialanalysis.ai/#price-and-cost

"Let them eat cake..."

I'm glad that you have the luxury burn $200/mo. But that aside, it's not obvious to me that handing your pennies to an American company that is in cahoots with the American military, willing to self-censor at the direction of the American government, investing in large-scale raping of the planet to build new power plants data centers -- is better than handing your (20x fewer) pennies to a Chinese company who releases its models in the open, and is investing in efficiency so that we can run the same inference for a fraction of the resources.