After playing with and using AI for almost two years now it is not getting better from both a cost perspective and performance.

So the higher the cost the better the performance. While models and hardware can be improved the curve is still steep.

The big answer is what are people using it for? We'll they are using lightweight simplistic models to do targeted tasks. To do many smaller and easier to process tasks.

Most of the news on AI is just there to promote a product to earn more cash.