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The Price of Intelligence Is Falling Rapidly
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Hacker News | Sep 23, 2026 | gotmedium
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Over the past three years, the cost of a given level of AI performance has fallen an average of some 47% per quarter. A given level of intelligence is also requiring dramatically less inference expenditure. This is one reason the open-model threat is not as large as it appears: frontier models don’t merely outperform older models; they are rapidly becoming cheaper to run at any given level of performance.
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