Reminds me of how nobody is too excited about flagship mobile launches anymore. Most flagships for sometime now are just incremental updates over previous gen and only marginally better. Couple that with the chinese OEMs launching better or good enough devices at a lower price point, new launches from established players are not noteworthy anymore.
It's interesting how the recent AI announcements are following the same trend over a smaller timeframe.
Phones are limited by hardware manufacturing, plus maybe the annual shopping cycle peaking at Christmas. People won't have bought multiple iPhones even in its heyday.
These LLM models were supposedly limited by the training run, but these point-version models are mostly post-training driven, which seems to be taking less time.
If models were tied to a specific hardware (say, a "AI PC" or whatever) the cycle would get slower and we'll get a slower summer which I'm secretly wishing.
It's interesting how the recent AI announcements are following the same trend over a smaller timeframe.