{"id":633919,"date":"2026-09-23T23:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T23:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/633919\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T23:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T23:02:21","slug":"the-price-of-intelligence-is-falling-rapidly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/633919\/","title":{"rendered":"The Price of Intelligence is Falling Rapidly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An amazing <a href=\"https:\/\/epoch.ai\/publications\/the-plunging-price-of-thought\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Epoch AI report<\/a> from Emberson and Roodman:<\/p>\n<p>Over the past three years, the cost of a given level of AI performance has fallen an average of some 47% per quarter. That is a 13-fold drop every year \u2013 a faster rate than any other transformative technology in history.<\/p>\n<p>To give an example, OpenAI o3 cost about $0.30\/question to attain 75% on GPQA Diamond in January 2025, while GPT-5.6 Luna attained roughly the same score for $0.0004 in mid-2026\u2014a roughly 725-fold decline in under 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, it\u2019s not just that the models are getting smarter. 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\u2019t merely outperform older models; they are rapidly becoming cheaper to run at any given level of performance. Smarter and cheaper.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/HS2d9XeaAAAgZKG.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An amazing Epoch AI report from Emberson and Roodman: Over the past three years, the cost of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-633919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}