OpenAI's Price Cuts, Rapid Releases, and Math Breakthroughs Signal Takeoff
basedjensen · x · 2026-08-01
Andrew Curran argues that OpenAI's recent moves—suddenly increasing stack efficiency and slashing prices, accelerating the cadence of model releases, and achieving sudden breakthroughs in math—all point to the same underlying reality: a massive leap in model capabilities. He urges skeptics to accept that AI technology is now taking off.
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