Rising Frontier Model Costs Split the Market
tengyanAI · x · 2026-07-10
The post predicts a major trend for 2026: the per-token cost of frontier intelligence is rising, while the per-token cost of sub-frontier intelligence is dropping rapidly. The author concludes that the market is experiencing a clear divergence.
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