The cost of understanding what happens in a video has dropped by a factor of roughly 40, while the quality of that understanding has improved dramatically.
大多数人认为AI视频分析仍处于早期阶段且成本高昂，但作者指出AI视频分析成本已大幅下降40倍，质量反而提升。这一反直觉观点暗示视频分析可能已经跨越了实用性的门槛，将催生全新的应用类别，挑战了人们对AI视频处理能力的传统认知。
This means 2.7x more tokens from the same GB300 NVL72-based infrastructure and power footprint, reducing the cost to manufacture each token by more than 60%.
大多数人认为硬件升级是提高AI性能的主要方式，但作者认为通过软件优化可以在相同硬件上实现2.7x的性能提升和60%以上的成本降低，这挑战了行业对硬件升级的依赖。这种观点暗示软件优化可能比硬件升级更具成本效益。
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Cost reduction suggestion
there may be ways to reduce costs associated with the development of Census-equivalent statistics, including relying less on the general public to answer questions every five years