AI Model Cost Statistics: Training, Inference and Token Pricing
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Artificial intelligence is getting more expensive to build and much cheaper to use. Both trends are happening at the same time. Training a frontier AI model can cost tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in computing. Epoch AI estimates that the hardware and energy cost of these training runs has grown about 2.4 times per year. After a model is trained, the picture flips. Epoch AI estimates that the price of reaching a fixed level of AI performance has fallen about 47% every quarter since 2023, which is roughly 13 times per year.
Source: CoinCentral
