It's happening on all sides.

Local LLM's are hit worse. Its about 6k for 5090 or 15k for an RTX 6000 and the Mac Ultra 256 is upwards of 12k.

Sure if you already have hardware, you can frankenbuild a system - but even the "affordable" dev stations of the DGX Sparks went from 3500 to 5k and upwards of 8k depending on vendor.

All the meanwhile, OpenAI pushed Luna 6 which is crazy cheap suggesting they have flash models to compete with Chinese models.

I just hope we see more open weights. Nvidia has NEMO but their license doesn't allow NEMO to be re-used on say, Apple or ROCm - Nvidia hardware only. Big ol MEH