alt Hacker News> Given that OpenAI is ahead in intelligence, it's also reasonably likely that they are at the frontier of efficiency too.
Frontier labs have no incentive to be at the frontier of efficiency.
Claude still leads the pack in general intelligence yet has the worst efficiency by far.
They have an incentive to make their models efficient enough to serve demand and make a profit on it.
The incentive that is missing is passing on efficiency improvements as price savings to customers, when your model is still in demand because of its higher intelligence.