What does a 12-hour solution cost an OpenAI customer?
The real question is, what does it cost OpenAI? I'm pretty sure both their plans are well below cost, at least for users who max them out (and if you pay $200 for something then you'll probably do that!). How long before the money runs out? Can they get it cheap enough to be profitable at this price level, or is this going to be "get them addicted then jack it up" kind of strategy?
Compute costs will fall drastically for existing models
But it's likely that frontier models of the future won't be released to the public at all, because they'll be too good
Benchmarks are one thing, real world performance is very different.