Three plain chatbot robots stand in a row, each with a small price tag bearing a percent sign hanging at its side. A surprised doctor stands apart, pointing toward a small orange scanner robot. Above the scanner floats a bar chart labeled ACCURACY, its tallest bar right over the scanner's head.

Cheaper But Not Smarter

Frontier AI models just got up to 80% cheaper. A ten-year-old image classifier still beats them at spotting skin cancer.

#26 · 26 October 2026

News of 25 October 2026

Relevant sources

OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why? minimaxir.com · via Hacker News
A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis lynchlab.net · via Hacker News

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