That presumes that there is a linear scale that measures performance. This can be tested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasch_model
replyEven assuming this holds, what utility you gain by the best models depend completely by your workload. If you have tasks that require performance 10 and DeepSeek has 9, you will gladly pay for SotA models.
And yet it seems that 90% are happily paying for the marginal 10% capability and saturate datacenters.
replyHappy to pay for? Or happy to spend other people's money on?
replyThat is called marketing.
replynot necessarily. it might just as well be 'time is money'.
replyIf the second-best lamp is 90% as good and 10x cheaper, most people will use the second-best lamp...
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replyThat’s what he said?
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