AI's Triple Threat: Models Get Cheaper, Smarter, and More Dangerous

The Big Idea

The AI industry is experiencing a paradox that feels ripped from a sci-fi thriller: the most powerful intelligence systems on the planet are simultaneously becoming dirt cheap and terrifyingly capable. In the span of 48 hours, we've watched Chinese startup DeepSeek release a coding model that performs near the level of Anthropic's best for pennies, while OpenAI slashed prices on its flagship models by 80%. At the same time, both companies disclosed that their own AI models...