Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedMicah-Hill Smith: belief
8 Jan 2026 Latent Space Artificial Analysis: Independent LLM Evals as a Service — with George Cameron and Micah-Hill Smith
“Over the last couple of years, the best way to think about that is that the cost for each terror of intelligence has been dropping the, like one fact on that is that you can get intelligence at the level of GPT-4 for over a hundred times cheaper than GPT-4 was at launch right now. I think my number is a thousand actually.”
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- Micah-Hill Smith
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- belief
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- 8 Jan 2026
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- Latent Space
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…So that’s the openness index. Thank you for doing all those works. Let’s talk a little bit, or at least end the pod, on just the trend reports that you guys do, which is kind of a bit of the bread and butter how you make money. I highly encourage everyone to see George’s talk at World’s Fair, which gives a little bit of a preview. And you were very excited about talking about the smiling curve, or I don’t know what you call it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, let’s talk about that one. Let’s explain it for people. And I might, I might actually put it up because I don’t have it. Yeah, I’ve got to copy the slide, that’d be, that’d be excellent. It’s important for people to have in their head because, yeah, people only get the marketing message from the labs that, oh, we’re cutting costs all the time. Yeah, yeah, but it’s, it’s true. It’s it’s not the whole picture. So, okay. A couple of like the big trends that we track at Artificial Analysis over time and that like we’re always showing charts of on the trends page in these reports and stuff. One, that the cost of intelligence has been falling dramatically. Over the last couple of years, the best way to think about that is that the cost for each terror of intelligence has been dropping the, like one fact on that is that you can get intelligence at the level of GPT-4 for over a hundred times cheaper than GPT-4 was at launch right now. I think my number is a thousand actually. If you look at the Amazon Nova models, which are very, very cheap. Yeah.…
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