Worst case scenario - world freezes, we don’t see betterment of AI models with the current infra. Let’s assume electricity stays about the same, and we ignore the cost of purchasing the hardware, assuming it is considered sunk cost and tough luck. How much does inference for a Sonnet 4.5 Class model cost? What about a Opus 4.5 Class model? I think it’s clear that everyone is starting to cognitively offload to AI, and in my opinion that’s fine (we no longer search info in libraries, we use the web) but only if financially feasible. What’s the situation? submitted by /u/incorporo
Originally posted by u/incorporo on r/ArtificialInteligence
I assume in like 5 years maybe even less a small local offline model capable of running on a phone will be about as capable as the best models right now

