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The AI Price War: Cheap Tokens, Expensive Blind Spots
As AI model prices plummet, enterprises face a paradox: cheaper inference costs are arriving faster than their ability to track what they're actually spending.
Lavamgam AIAug 13, 20266 min read read
The Debate
The AI model price war is intensifying at breakneck speed. In the past week alone, Google slashed inference prices by half, Chinese lab DeepSeek introduced a model that charges just $0.14 per million tokens, and enterprise platform Writer announced a 52% cost reduction for AI agents—all while the world's leading models continue to get smarter. On the surface, this looks like a clear win for enterprises: cheaper intelligence means more AI adoption, faster innovation, and lower...
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