The Collapsing Cost of Running AI

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/the-collapsing-cost-of-running-ai. Alexander Kopylkov on why AI got dramatically cheaper to run this year, and why that made record spending and smarter investing happen at the same time. Check more stories related to machine-learning at: https://hackernoon.com/c/machine-learning. You can also check exclusive content about #ai-agents, #artificial-intelligence, #investment, #ai-inference-costs, #ai-infrastructure-spending, #hyperscaler-capex, #generative-ai-economics, #venture-capital, and more. This story was written by: @alexanderkopylkov. Learn more about this writer by checking @alexanderkopylkov's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Running AI got radically cheaper this year, yet total spending on it hit a record, roughly $745 billion across the four biggest tech companies. Cheaper tools rarely mean less spending, they mean wider use. Once cheap AI becomes available to everyone, the real investment edge shifts away from the model itself and toward whatever a company owns that a competitor cannot copy overnight.