Silicon Valley's core AI bet is cracking: building models costs more, using them costs less
SumitGup · x · 2026-10-21
The original post argues that the long-standing Silicon Valley belief—whoever builds the smartest AI system rules the industry—is starting to look misguided. The cost of building frontier models keeps rising while the price of using them keeps falling, suggesting intelligence is rapidly commoditizing and model capability alone may no longer confer dominance.
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