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"plaintext": "A better blogger would cite all the sources but I think a lot of these have been claimed by multiple people, and I don't remember where I heard of them all. "
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"plaintext": "If I recall--maybe current LLMs are expensive enough that eventually we settle on smaller, way cheaper models that do 95% of what current models do but can run way faster and cheaper? So like the Concorde was the fastest passenger jet ever but now is in a museum, maybe the 'smartest' LLMs (which could still be years away) won't be worth the overhead to run inference on"
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