the question is will we experience resource constraints before we get there? what if the step up to post-scarcity is gated by a compute level just out of our reach?
Gemma 3n E4B has been crazy good for me - fine tune running on Google Cloud Run via Ollama, completely avoiding token based pricing at the cost of throughput limitations
according to OpenRouter, Cerebras charges $0.65/$0.85 for 1m input/output tokens for Llama 4 Scout. Google charges $0.25/$0.70; lambda.ai charges $0.08/$0.30 for the same model.
Currently Cerebras, although faster, is more expensive than the traditional alternatives. Cursor's use case doesn't benefit from instant, users are happy to wait the few seconds (and watching the magic may even be beneficial)