Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown: frontier-level intelligence is ~20x cheaper in a year
victor_explore · x · 2026-09-06
Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown says access to a model as smart as last year's best frontier model is now roughly 20x cheaper — a striking data point on how fast AI pricing floors are dropping.
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