Mustafa Suleyman: GPT-4-class inference costs fell 300x in 3 years, unprecedented for any tech
mustafasuleyman · x · 2026-09-07
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says AI proliferation is more extreme than most people realize: inference costs for GPT-4-class intelligence have dropped 300x in three years. He notes it's hard to think of any other technology in history that has fallen in price that fast, implying frontier capabilities are commoditizing at an unprecedented pace.
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