Search Costs Overtake Inference in Agent Workflows

As model inference approaches free, search has become the dominant cost in AI agent workflows. Parag (p0) aims to make search 100x cheaper than Google, while Shapley values are being explored to price the content agents consume based on marginal contribution.

2026-08-24 ~ 2026-08-24 · 3 related posts

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