Benchmarks Don't Pay the Power Bill // AIDRAN

The institutional framing around open-weight releases emphasizes capability — benchmark positions, context window sizes, parameter counts. What r/LocalLLaMA's April threads reveal is that practitioners have moved to a different evaluative frame entirely: what does this model cost to operate at acceptable throughput, and is that cost predictable?

Open Model Benchmarks Don't Pay the Electricity Bill

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