What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x

The cost to run a large-language-model task fell from $1.22 to $0.022 in six months—a 56× reduction, and at the current rate a 100× drop will occur within a year. This price collapse lets inexpensive models handle high-volume work such as reading tens of thousands of papers, while the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index tracks capability across models and shows the moving Pareto frontier of cost versus performance.