DeepMind researcher: frontier labs serve older models cheaper than anyone else
SamuelAlbanie · x · 2026-11-01
Samuel Albanie (DeepMind researcher) offers a sharp industry observation: the lab at the frontier can usually serve a model behind the frontier more cheaply than anyone else. Their accumulated inference infrastructure and optimization expertise mean previous-generation models carry near-minimal marginal cost for them — a structural economic advantage over all other providers.
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