Llm

The AI model is out. Not gone — out. Finished as a place to compete. Everyone still talks about the model as if it were the whole story: which one is smartest this week, whose benchmark just moved, who shipped the biggest one. None of that is the important thing anymore. Here’s what actually happened. Token prices fell roughly 600× in six years. A model that cost $60 per million tokens in late 2021 now costs pennies. Open-weight models do for free most of what the flagship ones charged for. The model became a commodity — something you rent by the meter and swap out whenever a cheaper one is smart enough. ...