Intelligence at Six Cents on the Dollar: OpenAI's 80% Price Cut and the New Economics of Inference - August 1, 2026

Intelligence at Six Cents on the Dollar: OpenAI's 80% Price Cut and the New Economics of Inference On July 30, 2026, OpenAI cut the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% and Terra by 20%, and said the cuts were made possible by its own flagship model autonomously rewriting the production kernels that serve it. Chris and Laura dig into what the new per-token numbers actually mean, why the named customer figures are more persuasive than the benchmarks, and whether radically cheap inference signals genu...