Unless I misread it, this article simply doesn’t mention training or the cost of it.
Yes, and the training data behind a lot of models is already stale and rotting fast.
Maintenance is just as important and the cost is often overlooked. The sober reality is that an LLM is just a natural language search index. For now, Google might be the only one with the capability to maintain "training" at the pace most people expect.
Training would fall under "compute and infrastructure investments", which I mention in the 3rd paragraph.