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by boesboes 5 days ago
What costs are 1/100th?
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Of serving a (approximately) gpt4 sized model.
What made the cost go down? Can't be cheaper used H100, can't be cheaper RAM. A revolutionary breakthrough in hardware use per query?
Is this true? Hardware costs have only gone up during this time. Are you referring to electricity cost to serve these models? (i.e. compute got more efficient?)
Does that include the capital costs of spinning up to the current models/scale or is it just running costs?

Also, lost revenue from other services being degraded by shifting resources to supporting training/serving models (Google Search...)?

So the number is irrelevant. No one wants yesterdays newspaper.

The only relevant number is the price to serve a frontier or near-frontier model.