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Back to EpisodesIntelligence at Six Cents on the Dollar: OpenAI's 80% Price Cut and the New Economics of Inference - August 1, 2026
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Intelligence at Six Cents on the Dollar: OpenAI's 80% Price Cut and the New Economics of Inference
On July 30, 2026, OpenAI cut the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% and Terra by 20%, and said the cuts were made possible by its own flagship model autonomously rewriting the production kernels that serve it. Chris and Laura dig into what the new per-token numbers actually mean, why the named customer figures are more persuasive than the benchmarks, and whether radically cheap inference signals genuine abundance or the opening move in a race to the bottom.
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