Tokens will surely become commodities, but models don't need to. The point is that electricity becomes a commodity, rather than, say, nuclear reactors or gas turbines also need to be commoditized. Contrary to most people in the software-minded circle, I am not very excited about running local LLMs. Most of what I have seen involves selling wrappers that call APIs on top of an LLM AI, similar to how traditional SaaS h…
Agreed, although most of what humans do is pretty pointless in that context. Even if AI turns out to be a multiplier that makes everyone quicker and smarter, people will mostly just want to use it to make more money than the next guy. The history of capitalism suggests that the money-go-round will create useful technology along the way.