Measuring Intelligence Per Watt Reveals Lack of Frontier Pricing Moat
ajratner · x · 2026-07-31
Researchers Jon Saad Falcon and Avanika propose a new metric: measuring intelligence per watt rather than just raw capability.
This perspective reframes the margin question. It suggests that high frontier pricing does not require a better model to fail; it only requires the following three conditions to hold, which would collapse the current pricing system:
- Switching costs stay near zero
- Lock-in remains weak
- Most workloads never reach the frontier capability ceiling
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