The cost per fixed level of intelligence is dropping, but we're also getting dramatically more intelligent models.
MiMo-2.6 RL'd for ~$3.5M (not B), both main and flash combined, that is dramatically less and top 10 on https://artificialanalysis.ai/
https://mimo.xiaomi.com/mimo-v2-6
A frontier Ai is cheaper to make than a single 5/6th gen fighter jet, and maybe every fighter jet at this point.
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MiMo-2.6 RL'd for ~$3.5M (not B), both main and flash combined, that is dramatically less and top 10 on https://artificialanalysis.ai/
https://mimo.xiaomi.com/mimo-v2-6
A frontier Ai is cheaper to make than a single 5/6th gen fighter jet, and maybe every fighter jet at this point.