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by criddell 11 days ago
Today's frontier models will be tomorrows low-end option. I think whatever model you are using today will be less expensive to use a year or two from now.
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Last year's o3 was more expensive than 5.5 is. Whatever model we are using now is probably be more expensive than next year's leading models will be.
Price per M/tokens is also a fuzzy metric when newer models reason longer, and then burn more tokens while doing so.
Isn't 5.5 a router, though? As in, some prompts get automatically sent to a cheaper model?