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Open-source models are already taking the easier tasks. The bull case for frontier labs rests on one question. "A lot of software engineering, white-collar work in general, does not need Fable 5.1 or Astra 6 level intelligence." "A lot of businesses, especially lower gross margin businesses, are very rationally... show more
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Frontier labs selling genius while most work needs a cheap model

which tasks do you count as easy for the open models?

When you strip out API margin differentials (source - your numbers) the frontier labs have lower compute cost per task for easier tasks. With additional compute supply they could capture the market for these tasks too with lower margins on Luna/Sonnet/Terra class models There’s plenty of upside being lowest cost producer of commodity factor of production - look at the Gulf

tbh the easy task money was never the frontier labs game anyway

Besides cybersecurity,what other AI niches could open models attract in the future ?

thank you very much. how about frontier labs are going to dominate every single point of the pareto cap / price curve?

And a lot of compute doesn’t need a power hungry GPU. Please follow these examples

Well said; but electricity will skyrocket

what counts as an easy task keeps moving up every six months, so frontier labs are basically selling a head start that keeps getting shorter

Two-thirds of large businesses now pay for AI per Ramp data but the next leg of adoption may be depth: learning the difference of when to use a top-tier model vs. a less intensive one.

Semianalysis has 0 credibility any more

Feels like lazy analysis. Open source taking over simpler tasks doesn’t necessarily weaken the frontier labs. It could massively expand the market while pushing frontier models to problems that weren’t economically feasible to solve before. The bigger question is whether the labs can maintain pricing power as intelligence gets cheaper. That’s what will determine who captures the value, not how many hypothetical PhDs the economy can absorb.

Once an app lets users pick, routine work drifts to the cheaper model, and the frontier labs have to earn their price on the hardest tasks

the transition point is when local inference cost drops below the coordination overhead of external APIs

Unless you're a Big Tech SWE, the cost effectiveness of open source tokens is really really hard to ignore.

See Wallis/North 1986, or our book forthcoming @PalgraveEcon for an unqualified, No.

Competition at any level (state/country, corporation, individual) ensures that there is a market for ever higher levels of intelligence. You want to be smarter than your competitor.

