Agents2h ago
Intelligence Costs Plummet as Agentic Era Begins
Inference prices for GPT-4 class capabilities dropped from $30 per million tokens in early 2023 to under $1 today. This 50x median decline makes high-level knowledge work virtually free. Researchers at BAIR argue that the bottleneck has shifted from raw intelligence to data systems. Developers must now build infrastructure specifically for autonomous agents.