alt Hacker NewsA top of the line consumer desktop, the Mac Pro, costs $7000. The commonly acknowledged first non-mechanical computer, the ENIAC, cost $400,000, which adjusted for inflation is $6,594,153 (see note). Will AI models follow the same pricing trajectory? Probably not but they no longer cost even close to $100 billion.
Note: 1946 CPI = 19.5, 2025 CPI = 321.465 which makes for an increase of 16.49.
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ayewo • yesterday at 8:38 AM
It seems all you did was use this formula:
CPI{2025} / CPI{1946} * Price{1946} = Price{2025}
to obtain the price adjusted for inflation?
That is the only way I was able to arrive at the same number you got: $6,594,153.846. TIL.
> Will AI models follow the same pricing trajectory?
If the article is correct, and this is the best way to make them, their price will explode.