I think we will beat the cost with Hardware. Faster, more efficient hardware. From what I have seen we have only found ways to make it smarter and not more cost effective.

I'm curious to see the next generation of dedicated AI processors and how they perform.

▲ danuker 2 hours ago | parent [-]

There are models offering great value on current hardware, like GLM-5.3-Flash and DeepSeek-v4.1-1017.

Anthropic and OpenAI are expensive bleeding edge, but few use cases really need it.

	▲	singularity2001 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		`few use cases really need it.` Unfortunately, I came to the conclusion that higher intelligence is extremely beneficial even for 'dumb tasks'. So I resorted to switching to Opus for pretty much everything.
	▲	maxdo an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		to me , glm flash and deep seek is that chinese 3 wheel tuk-tuk or e-bike runs on electricity. It make perfect sense to run to supermarket, and it's a backbone of Chinese economy, but no way in my life for a chance to save $100/mo you will risk your business with bugs, and bad/worse architecture decisions to save that $100. again, they can be great for narrow use cases, and save you a fortune.
	▲	Bluestein 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		At this point, they are beginning to approach the Tesla Roadster case. The flying one.-