The cost of AI reasoning over time (via) Karina Nguyen from Anthropic provides a fascinating visualization illustrating the cost of different levels of LLM over the past few years, plotting their cost-per-token against their scores on the MMLU benchmark.
Claude 3 Haiku currently occupies the lowest cost to score ratio, over on the lower right hand side of the chart.
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