$22.5M in tokens spent to win a $1M prize — peak AI economics
chiefmartec · x · 2026-09-10
Scott Brinker (chiefmartec) quips about reports that a team burned roughly $22.5 million in model tokens to win a $1 million prize — a lopsided cost-to-reward ratio he calls peak AI. The jab highlights the compute arms-race mindset in frontier AI competitions, where leaderboard glory apparently outweighs the prize money itself.
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