Intelligence is Free, Now What? Data Systems for, of, and by Agents
... government of the people, by the people, for the people ... — Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863) The cost of AI is dropping rapidly. GPT-4-class capabilities cost roughly $30 per million tokens in early 2023; today the same runs under $1 , and some providers are pushing costs below $0.10 . Across benchmarks, inference prices have fallen between 9x and 900x per year , with a median decline near 50x. Even frontier models are getting dramatically cheaper ea
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Published: 7 July 2026
Source: Bair Blog (Berkeley AI Research)
Category: Field notes
Topics: Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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