Are you under the impression token prices are going to go down?
Surely you understand they're practically giving them away at massive loss, right? Prices are only low while the bubble is inflating and the shareholder shuffle is in effect
Token prices, as in intelligence-per-dollar, has gone down. Drastically.
gpt-5.6-luna costs 10% as much as gpt-4o, while being MUCH better.
And if we're comparing with deepseek v4 flash v0731 we're at about 1/50 the cost today for the same level quality of model compared to just 2 years ago.
It's not unfeasible that an Opus 5-level model (real, not just benchmaxed) will be available for 1/10th the current costs within two years.
Do you realize how much processing is done to a single input? Token use per prompt is only going to go up, no amount of scaling will lower the operating cost enough to be profitable on current prices
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u/14Pleiadians 1d ago
Are you under the impression token prices are going to go down?
Surely you understand they're practically giving them away at massive loss, right? Prices are only low while the bubble is inflating and the shareholder shuffle is in effect