HBM Shortage Makes Frontier AI a Luxury Good by 2030, RIKEN Study Finds
HBM shortage analysis from RIKEN's Satoshi Matsuoka shows frontier AI costs will reach $18–38 billion per training run by 2030 while open-weight models like GLM-5.2 deliver near-frontier quality at one-sixth the price, permanently splitting the AI industry into a luxury tier serving a narrow enterprise segment and a mass tier accessible to most buyers.
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