According to these predictions, it does seem like the expense is just going to grow and grow. A lot of research and work right now that is going towards trying to deal with that increase in processing workload. It's not inconceivable that a single breakthrough in technique like distillation, compression, data efficiency could really bring down any of their cost estimates by like a factor of 10. And there is at least a significant chance that they could do better than four times improvements, but it remains to be seen.

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