Your Next AI Model Is Weeks Away

AI Breakdown · Oct 25, 2026 · 8m

𝐀 𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝟏𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐭𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝟐,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬. 👀

Mistral put a price list on a trillion parameter model. $1.36 per million input tokens, $4.18 per million output, and 14 cents per million for cached input, the text you send over and over.

This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧, we close the theme:

𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬. 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐀𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬. 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐭.

Output costs more than input, because producing text takes more work than reading it. So a job that writes a lot costs more than a job that reads a lot, and that is the arithmetic a lean budget actually runs on.

Inside the episode:

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