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A model's training cost is incurred once, while the skills learned can be shared across all users.
Dwarkesh Patel · Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x · 3 Aug 2026
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“When you train a model,”
“you just have to spend this one-time cost to learn all these different skills that then get to be shared across all your users.”10:44Report a misattribution
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