Frontier AI experimentation remains costly even with heavy subsidies, practitioner says
andreisavu · x · 2026-10-31
An AI practitioner notes that experimenting with frontier AI models, even when heavily subsidized, is far from cheap. He calls it a huge privilege to run such experiments and build strong intuition about what works and what doesn't — a window into the cost barriers facing those iterating on frontier models.
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