Price of intelligence collapsing 13x per year, says blogger citing Epoch AI data
LeviTurk · x · 2026-09-26
Blogger LeviTurk cites data showing the price of intelligence collapsing 13x per year, contrasting it with Epoch AI's earlier estimate of a 9-900x LLM price drop over 18 months. He predicts that at this rate, an Opus-class model could run locally on his laptop next year.
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