康桥汇世：2025年驾驭AI革命：三部曲系列报告（英文版）

Improvements in hardware and algorithmic efficiency are driving down the cost of basic AI inference each quarter—much faster than occurred in mobile and cloud. In fact, the inference cost for a system performing at the level of ChatGPT 3.5 dropped more than 280-fold between November 2022 and October 2024. As usage costs of models decline, the technology becomes more accessible and scalable, and tasks that were prohibitively expensive for all but the largest corporations can be run by individu