Recent revelations from Amazon and Revolut suggest that giving developers effectively unlimited AI tokens can unlock significant productivity gains.
Access to frontier models may matter less than being able to automate everything you can without worrying about cost.
If cheap, abundant inference is more valuable than access to expensive frontier models, where would that leave the frontier labs?
@carnage4life question I don't have the answer to: if you can make a frontier model, do you effectively get infra-frontier models for free?
If so, there may be a business plan in which frontier labs use their frontier models as F1 cars, then distill them down to cheaper street legal models to earn their coin.