The plunging price of thought

kept by eddie sep 23

Epoch AI reports that the cost to achieve a given level of AI performance has fallen roughly 47% per quarter since 2023, outpacing historic tech price drops.

Do All Your Agents Really Need Models Like Claude 5 or GPT-5.6?
Many AI agent tasks don't need frontier models; matching model capability to task complexity can cut costs by up to 75%.
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The machine never raises its voice
LLMs consistently prefer their own machine-generated literary passages over human-authored classics, valuing precision and restraint over voice and strangeness when evaluating literary quality.
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