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As exciting as it sounds, but "As a constraint, a GA designer should aim at a system which costs, as of mid-2026, >$1,000⧸month" will make this an elite tool
by weinzierl 3mo ago
As exciting as it sounds, but
"As a constraint, a GA designer should aim at a system which costs, as of mid-2026, >$1,000⧸month"
will make this an elite tool for the privileged. I don't even disagree with the premise that people are shocked if something costs no matter how much value it delivers, nor do I suggest they should make it cheaper. It is just the realization that AI will accelerate the widening of the gap between the poor and the rich even more and there is probably nothing we can do about it.
- jey 3mo agoObviously the costs will come down over time. And quickly.
- wmf 3mo ago2026: $1,000/month 2027: $100/month 2028: $10/month
- weinzierl 3mo agoHopefully!
- rchaud 3mo agoJust because the hardware and inference costs may decrease in the future doesn't mean prices will. The AI vendor market is the furthest thing from a competitive industry where there are limited barriers to entry and new market entrants exert downward pressure on prices and profit margins. Every single company in this market is losing billions on this business, and the only way to make it back is to acquire paying customers at a loss and jack up prices later.
- wmf 3mo agoSince Guardian Angel is an inference vendor [1] hopefully they will set sustainable prices from day one so they don't need to increase prices later. [1] The announcement explains that they can't use APIs for privacy reasons.
- KerrAvon 3mo agoThey don't control that. Pricing is controlled by the question of when RAM is once again made of semiconductors instead of unobtainium.
- lanakei 3mo agoCompanies aren't losing billions on AI, it is profitable. Currently, industry spend is more than industry revenue because there are massive gains expected from investment into more compute and research, but this isn't an inherent cost of the technology. Consider that OpenAI recently dropped the price of their frontier model by 90% [1]. [1]: https://openai.com/index/advancing-the-price-performance-frontier-with-gpt-5-6/ https://openai.com/index/advancing-the-price-performance-fro...
- KerrAvon 3mo agothis is not how it's going to go if OpenAI and Anthropic get their way and the US outlaws use of open-weight models
- bronson 3mo agoRAM: 2024: $315 2025: $780 2026: $1600
- probably_wrong 3mo agoAlso, price of an Nvidia RTX 4090 according to a random website [1]: Jan. 2023: $1920 Jan. 2024: $1811 Jan. 2025: $1639 Jan. 2026: $2193 [1] https://bestvaluegpu.com/history/new-and-used-rtx-4090-price-history-and-specs/ https://bestvaluegpu.com/history/new-and-used-rtx-4090-price...
- shpx 3mo ago$1920 in Jan 2023 has the same buying power as $2143 in June 2026 https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=1%2C920.00&year1=202301&year2=202606 https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=1%2C920.00&yea...
- problemsolver9 3mo ago[flagged]
- greyface- 3mo agoThe future isn't evenly distributed.
- ks2048 3mo agoYou’re assuming this $1000/mo will buy you something useful.
- anon-torment 3mo agoYou can live 3 months where I live with that money.
- ks2048 2mo agoMy point was the opposite - I don't think this "Guardian Angel" product will be worth anything.