"ERNIE 4.5 + X1: Most POWERFUL and CHEAPEST LLM Beats GPT-4.5, R1, & Sonn..."

https://youtube.com/watch?v=z46KBYbcpmo&

The following is my commentary about the pricing of tokens.


At about 1 minute in, look at the tokens pricing vs OpenAI.

For CAD situations where online "thinking" and assists are MANDATORY, these kinds of driven down prices for tokens up and down the net can make some intriguing options open up for CAD developers who have customers OK with GPTs crawling around in their computers.

Personally, I'd still want purely off-line on my working machine, but would be ok with a separate online machine for lure queries and one-way download of updates, patches, analysis theories, and such.

The drive-down of tokens costing is getting wilder every day.