alt Hacker NewsVirtually no one is going to pay for the best performing lamp if the next best lamp does 90% as good for an order of magnitude cheaper.
I will say, as pointed out by others, DeepSeek and other Chinese providers still lack a bit in the tooling that Claude has, but they'll get there.
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baq • today at 7:28 AM
And yet it seems that 90% are happily paying for the marginal 10% capability and saturate datacenters.
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BrtByte • today at 5:20 AM
If the second-best lamp is 90% as good and 10x cheaper, most people will use the second-best lamp...
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That presumes that there is a linear scale that measures performance. This can be tested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasch_model
Even assuming this holds, what utility you gain by the best models depend completely by your workload. If you have tasks that require performance 10 and DeepSeek has 9, you will gladly pay for SotA models.