https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1gpr2p4/llms_cost_is_decreasing_by_10x_each_year_for/ https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1gpr2p4/llms_co.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1gpr2p4/llms_cost_is_decreasing_by_10x_each_year_for/ https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1gpr2p4/llms_co... See Chart 13 here: https://www.rdworldonline.com/ais-great-compression-20-charts-show-vanishing-gaps-but-still-soaring-costs/ https://www.rdworldonline.com/ais-great-compression-20-chart... See here: https://epoch.ai/data-insights/llm-inference-price-trends https://epoch.ai/data-insights/llm-inference-price-trends LLMs are so comically inefficient compared to the human brain that it is pretty easy to imagine this trend continuing for several more 90% drops. If LeCun's JEPA or GRAM turn out to be a thing, we could see a 3-4 order of magnitude drop in a single release cycle / generation. Keep in mind that performance per watt on the hardware side - at the same time - is still doubling every ~24 months - and this doesn't factor that in.