Intelligence is Free, Now What? <br> Data Systems for, of, and by Agents
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- Blog / Newsletter2026-07-16 19:07:20Intelligence is Free, Now What? <br> Data Systems for, of, and by Agents
<!-- twitter --> <p style="text-align: center;"> <i>... government of the people, by the people, for the people ...</i><br /> — Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863) </p> <p>The cost of AI is dropping rapidly. GPT-4-class capabilities cost roughly <span class="tex2jax_ignore">$30</span> per million tokens in early 2023; today the same runs under <span class="tex2jax_ignore">$1</span>, and <a href="https://zuplo.com/learning-center/the-10x-cheaper-ai-era-api-pricing-strategy-obsolete">some providers are pushing costs below <span class="tex2jax_ignore">$0.10</span></a>. Across benchmarks, <a href="https://epochai.org/data-insights/llm-inference-price-trends">inference prices have fallen between 9x and 900x per year</a>, with a median decline near 50x. Even <a href="https://tokenmix.ai/blog/ai-pricing-trends-history">frontier models are getting dramatically cheaper</a> each generation, with open-source models following closely behind. And cr