It’s amazing to watch the cost of intelligence falling.
In Nov 2023, we had college-junior level intelligence for $10 per million tokens, i.e. it would take them $10 to read and process something as large as all seven Harry Potter books.
By Apr 2025, Gemma 2 could do that at 2 cents. 500 times cheaper in a year and a half.
In Sep 2024, O1 brought in a college-grad level intelligence for $15 / MTok. That’s 5 cents today with GLM 4.7 Flash.
In Jan 2026, Gemini 3 Pro brought us tenured-professor level intelligence for $2 / MTok. Let’s give it a few months…
