№ 2026.Aug.21-002
An 80 Percent Price Cut: OpenAI Joins the Treadmill
OpenAI cut its cheapest model by 80 percent, and the official blog calls it "advancing the price-performance frontier." But this site said it once before: when the leader itself starts a price war, it has admitted that frontier migration can no longer open a wide enough gap. This is not progress. It is the sound of the treadmill accelerating.