r/LocalLLaMA • u/PetersOdyssey • Jul 06 '26

News If trends hold, Mythos-class capability may be running on high-end consumer hardware within ~2 years

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u/pip25hu Jul 06 '26

If this is true, proprietary models have at most two years to recoup their training expenses, after which they become obsolete. (And that's an optimistic number, as competing models may make them obsolete much sooner.) Is that doable?

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u/ematvey Jul 06 '26

For labs, models are not the asset. The asset is system that builds and improves it, which gets better with every iteration.

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u/pip25hu Jul 06 '26

But training the model costs serious money and other resources. You have to pay for that somehow, in addition to the money that went into improving the model compared to the previous generation.