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> Does an intern cost $20/month? Because that’s what Cursor.ai costs. This stuck out to me. How long will it continue to be so cheap? I would assume some of th
by kylereeve 1y ago
> Does an intern cost $20/month? Because that’s what Cursor.ai costs.
This stuck out to me. How long will it continue to be so cheap? I would assume some of the low cost is subsidized by VC money which will dry up eventually. Am I wrong here?
- simonw 1y agoPrices have been dropping like a stone over the past two years, due to a combination of new efficiencies being developed for serving plus competition from many vendors: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/llms-in-2024/#llm-prices-crashed-thanks-to-competition-and-increased-efficiency https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/llms-in-2024/#llm-pric... I'm not seeing any evidence yet of that trend stopping or reversing.
- overflow897 1y agoAt the rate they're going it'll just get cheaper. The cost per token continues to drop while the models get better. Hardware is also getting more specialized. Maybe the current batch of startups will run out of money but the technology itself should only get cheaper.
- svachalek 1y agoTraining frontier models is expensive. Running inference on them is pretty cheap and for solving the same level of problem, will continue to get cheaper. The more use they get out of a model, the less overhead we need to pay on that inference to subsidize the training.