There's no way there's only 10% left to improve in those models. New versions are coming out regularly that are clearly improved. Midjourney v5 and GPT-4 were just released showing huge improvements, for example.
Not only that, but the innovation around this tech is also just getting started. It's immediately applicable for business use. The classical techniques still have their uses, of course.
It's not that there's only 10% left to improve. It's that the data needed, compute requirements, and model size are as intensive, getting from 0 to 80 as they are getting from 80 to ~85 or ~90. See https://paperswithcode.com/sota/image-classification-on-imag...
Not only that, but the innovation around this tech is also just getting started. It's immediately applicable for business use. The classical techniques still have their uses, of course.