Comment by jokethrowaway

not necessarily, hardware and software gains will make tokens cheaper, so we'll see where we are once the vc money runs out (or the entire US economy, there's a chance AI will pop the tech bubble of the last 20 years: I think tech company evaluation are insanely inflated compared to the value they provide)

I can get gpt 3 level of quality with qwen 8B, even qwen 4B in some cases