PRICE WAR IN THE CHIP AISLE

Summary from the TLDR Founders newsletter

Five frontier AI models score within five points of each other on an intelligence benchmark, but the cost of running their tasks varies by 3.8 times. Google's Argon is cheapest at $1.99 per task. The comparison includes billed reasoning tokens and tests every model at maximum reasoning effort, so a similar score can come with a very different bill. Before choosing a default model, run the same sample of your application's requests through the candidates at the settings you plan to use and compare the cost of acceptable answers.