Two series the corpus has tracked separately — the falling price of inference and the standing price of labor — meet here.
Development
An hour of model costs an hour of minimum wage
Claim
Subsidized Sonnet 4.5 usage reached roughly $10 an hour for some workloads, reaching parity with the US minimum wage.
Reported metric: ~$10/hr
Reporting date: (not necessarily the event date)
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