No price cuts coming soon: market has chosen premium intelligence
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-20
The author argues frontier model prices won't drop any time soon: the market has spoken and chosen premium intelligence over intelligence too cheap to meter. The quoted tweet jokes that next time DeepSeek does a major price cut, they should report prices in $/billion tokens instead of $/million tokens — a unit that will soon apply to no one else.
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