Labs will crush small model providers on cost as RSI drives prices down
rickasaurus · x · 2026-10-30
The author argues that recursive self-improvement inherently includes making models cheaper, and that frontier labs will eventually crush smaller model providers on cost — "like a meteor hitting" them. It echoes the ongoing trend of labs repeatedly cutting prices as training and inference efficiency improves, squeezing vendors that survive on price gaps.
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