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AI is too expensive

https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-too-expensive/

#HackerNews #AI #Expensive #CostOfAI #AIChallenges #TechEconomics #FutureOfAI

AI is too expensive

https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-too-expensive/

#HackerNews #AI #Expensive #CostOfAI #AIChallenges #TechEconomics #FutureOfAI

AI is too expensive

https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-too-expensive/

#HackerNews #AI #Expensive #CostOfAI #AIChallenges #TechEconomics #FutureOfAI

AI is too expensive

https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-too-expensive/

#HackerNews #AI #Expensive #CostOfAI #AIChallenges #TechEconomics #FutureOfAI

AI is too expensive

https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-too-expensive/

#HackerNews #AI #Expensive #CostOfAI #AIChallenges #TechEconomics #FutureOfAI

MiniMax M2.5 scored within 0.6 points of Claude Opus 4.6 on key coding benchmarks while costing roughly 5% as much per token. Five Chinese AI labs shipped major models in a single week, suggesting the competition has shifted from capability gaps to cost optimization. Western labs face pressure to match prices without destroying research margins.

https://www.implicator.ai/minimax-matched-opus-at-5-of-the-price-the-ai-premium-is-dead/

#AI #CompetitiveDynamics #TechEconomics

Google's Gemini 3 Flash pricing reveals a shift in the AI industry's economics. While marketed as "a fraction of the cost" compared to Pro models, it costs 67% more than the Flash model it replaces - breaking four quarters of declining inference prices. The era of subsidized API access may be ending.

#AIpricing #LLMs #TechEconomics

https://www.implicator.ai/googles-gemini-3-flash-arrives-with-a-price-hike-disguised-as-a-discount/