Deedy: Trust Pricing, Not Benchmarks — High Price Means a Genuinely Strong Frontier Model
deedydas · x · 2026-10-01
Investor Deedy Das argues frontier AI has entered a stage of "late-stage model capitalism": labs must win a bunch of benchmarks before launching, so those numbers mean nothing anymore.
His take: the only signal worth trusting is price. If a lab prices its model high, it's genuinely good; if it prices low, it's likely benchmaxxed.
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