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Compute Shortages Shift AI Focus From Capabilities To Cost Efficiency

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Minh Nhat Nguyen@menhguin#1274inTech

The entire AI capex cycle depends on whether next gen models (Fable-tier) unlock exponentially more token spend. Open source models are "good enough" for most day-to-day work, so closed source spend has to be a step function better AND result in more token spend.

Minh Nhat Nguyen@menhguin

thinking harder about this, the most likely outcome IMO: 1. strong compute shortages force cost-performance over capabilities 2. open source models continue to cross threshold of usefulness 3. more compute crunch, less revenue growth for closed models 4. frontier labs taper off

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Minh Nhat Nguyen@menhguin

RSI does actually come into play here: if a lab can somehow massively increase the internal rate of algorithmic research, they can essentially ... buy more cost-effective models faster. There's lots of things to automate (mass ablation loops, PR handling etc).

Minh Nhat Nguyen@menhguin

The entire AI capex cycle depends on whether next gen models (Fable-tier) unlock exponentially more token spend. Open source models are "good enough" for most day-to-day work, so closed source spend has to be a step function better AND result in more token spend.

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Minh Nhat Nguyen@menhguin

I'm hearing Fable is qualitatively different (I expect the safety guardrail stuff to be minor in the end, Anthropic has had lots of such incidents). Cost does matter, tho, given how many alternatives there are across different tiers+token budgets getting tighter.

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ToolRadarAI@ToolRadarAI

@menhguin cool story. show fable audit logs and invoice.

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