[vidarh]

The point of the hardware comparison was not to argue that the hardware should be optimised, but to point out that it's ludicrous to point to the scale of the difference as evidence it's not an engineering gap when we have a history of overcoming far greater gaps in scale.

Yes, we need better architectures and algorithms. We can point to massive advances in software as well in many spaces, including in LLMs (e.g. compare early GPT versions with current smaller open models), but the hardware comparison came from further up-thread.