Equation 19 · Part 2 · Comparing Frontier Model Pricing Without Comparing Apples to Oranges

Symbol rho_i

\kappa_i = \rho_i = 1

\rho_i

What this part means

all equal to each other and to 1 across every vendor in the comparison.

Its job in the formula

rh $o_i$ is an input to the expression that computes the quantity on the left.

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Where the article explains it

Reading $p^{\text{in}}_i$ and $p^{\text{out}}_i$ off a rate card and comparing them directly across vendors is equivalent to assuming $\kappa_i$ , $\gamma_i$ , and $\rho_i$ are all equal to each other and to 1 across every vendor in the comparison.

The passage around this formula

Reading $p^{\text{in}}_i$ and $p^{\text{out}}_i$ off a rate card and comparing them directly across vendors is equivalent to assuming $\kappa_i$ , $\gamma_i$ , and $\rho_i$ are all equal to each other and to 1 across every vendor in the comparison. This article has just shown that one of those three, $\gamma_i$ , genuinely does converge close to 0.1 across all three companies’ published cards — the one term a naive comparison happens to get right by accident. The…

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