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  "id": 2498,
  "url": "http://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2026/07/07/intelligence-is-free-now-what",
  "title": "Intelligence is Free, Now What? Data Systems for, of, and by Agents",
  "summary": "... 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",
  "authors": null,
  "category": "org",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": "openai",
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-07T09:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:11:46.979Z",
  "source_slug": "x-bair-blog-berkeley-ai-research",
  "source_name": "Bair Blog (Berkeley AI Research)",
  "source_homepage": "https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2498",
  "original_url": "http://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2026/07/07/intelligence-is-free-now-what",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}