It feels as if the CPU MHz wars of the '90s are back. Now instead of geeking about CPU architectures which have various results of ambigous value on different benchmarks, we're talking about the same sorts of nerdy things between LLMs.
They're back, but at the speed of mid-2020s tech progress. I remember the CPU MHz wars being a far slower process, or maybe my processing of time as a child was slower in the 90s? Not sure. But I'm fairly certain there wasn't a new CPU 'drop' happening every few months like we witness now with new model drops in this current AI race.
History Rhymes with Itself.