[atleastoptimal]

Nevertheless, prices for LLM at any given level of performance have gone down precipitously over the past few years. Regardless of how bad it seems the decisions being made are, the decision making process both is making an extreme amount of money for those in the AI companies, and providing extremely cheap and high quality intelligence for those using their offerings.

[pimlottc]

Remember when you could get an Uber ride all the way across town for $5? It is way too early to know what prices for these services will actually cost.

[atleastoptimal]

Is there an open source Uber? There are multiple open source AI models far beyond what SOTA was just 1 year ago. Even if they don't manage to drive prices down on the most recent closed models, they themselves will never be a trivial amount more than the compute they run on, and compute will only get more expensive if demand for AI continues to grow exponentially, which would likewise drive prices down due to competitive pressure.

[xigoi]

> There are multiple open source AI models far beyond what SOTA was just 1 year ago.

There are many models that call themselves open source, but the source is nowhere to be found, only the weights.