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SOTA is becoming a luxury tier. I think that is the cleanest way to read what has been happening lately. State-of-the-art models were always too expensive to serve at scale and now that bill is finally due.

You are not supposed to run the smartest model for everything and that changes how I think about tooling, product design, and personal workflows. If your work depends on permanent, cheap access to frontier models, you are tying yourself to their subsidy schedule. Do not recommend.