Re:Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session
by otterley on Saturday April 18, 2026 @01:06AM
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I think the key question is “when”? In a highly competitive business environment, companies are going to naturally be attracted to the most capable model if it leads to a competitive advantage and the switching costs are low. This suggests that “open” (giving away inference despite ever-higher training costs) may not win for a very long time, if ever.
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Re:Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session
by rapind on Saturday April 18, 2026 @01:24PM
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When frontier models plateau and efficiency increases sufficiently that it becomes a commodity like other cloud compute.
One driver of open models might be foreign actors. With the entire US economy being held up by AI, it's a crucial vulnerability for a capable foreign actor (guess who) to exploit if they wanted to.