Once open-source models cover 90% of human work, costs could drop 1000x
tokenbender · x · 2026-09-23
tokenbender doubles down on his view that deep learning is scale and efficiency: since scaling keeps working, the incentive to scale beats cleverness. He predicts that once open-source models meet over 90% of current human work, costs could fall 1000x or more. A short trend-opinion post.
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