The 40 Cent AI Model Nobody Saw Coming
On the latest episode of Stacked Podcast, Nick and Jack talk about NaiveAI releasing a downloadable open model that costs around 40 cents per million tokens and can do up to 2,000 tokens per second. Jack thinks it's a price story, and Nick ranks it somewhere between A and S (which has Opus 5.5 at the top, with Fable 5.1 already moving down). They also cover Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's private dinner with President Trump after the company was flagged by the Pentagon as a supply chain risk, which Nick thinks probably went poorly (Dario's not for sale). Finally, they discuss how open models now…
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