OpenAI CEO: AI Launch Costs Decrease 10x Every Year
The cost of launching each new level of AI is falling by about 10x each year and could lead to a sharp drop in the prices of some goods, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a blog post .
“In some ways, AI could be economically similar to the transistor—a major scientific discovery that scales well and permeates virtually every area of the economy,” he said.
According to Altman, the price per token in the GPT-4o model (2024) has dropped by about 150 times compared to GPT-4 (2023).The developer also added that “the socioeconomic value of linear AI growth is super-exponential in nature,” meaning “there is no reason for the exponential growth of investment to stop in the near future.”
The introduction of AI agents is now beginning , noted the CEO of OpenAI. At the moment, there are only thousands of them, but soon the number will exceed 1 million, and artificial intelligence will penetrate all spheres of life - from politics to economics:
“The prices of many goods will eventually fall sharply (the cost of [training] AI and energy currently limits many things), and the prices of luxury goods and some inherently limited resources like land may rise even more,” Altman said.
Recall that at the end of January, a top manager called the much-talked-about DeepSeek-R1 AI model “impressive,” given its capabilities and the money spent on training.