Open source still depends on hardware scale
robleclerc · x · 2026-07-20
The post argues that even if open source keeps improving, hardware scale and innovation still drive most of the key model-competition factors.
It quotes a framework with four dimensions:
- intelligence per token
- price per token
- tokens per second
- context length
The claim is that winners will ultimately maximize the product of all four, and that hardware remains central to that outcome.
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