The AI Compute Currency Problem

While strides are being made in model efficiency, model complexity is outpacing efficiency gains. Recent comments by industry leaders suggest that this is going to be the status quo for the time being. Newer models, with o3, o4-mini, 2.5 Pro are getting smarter, and handling increasingly complex tasks (Deep Research, agentic workflows, etc.). That means charging $20/mo even with usage limits does not cut it, because the limits would be too low for frontier models. Naturally, AI service providers are introducing higher limit tiers for their latest and greatest models. OpenAI and Anthropic seem

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