alt Hacker Newsno, because closed sourced model pricing has no relationship to its size. Thats what im saying. the inference margins are crazy, but people think the fonrtiner models must be 10T params or something because theyre expensive
no, because closed sourced model pricing has no relationship to its size. Thats what im saying. the inference margins are crazy, but people think the fonrtiner models must be 10T params or something because theyre expensive
> closed sourced model pricing has no relationship to its size.
That's too strong. Only in an actual monopoly for a product with no substitutes that has price inelastic demand can pricing fully disconnect from costs. Frontier model serving is only maybe a soft version of that, where costs and moat both contribute to pricing.