> Inference is basically getting an 10x cheaper per year!

You're gonna need some good citations for that.

There's a big difference between companies saying "The inference costs on our service are down" and the inference costs on the model are down. The former is oft cheated by simplyifying and dumbing down the models used in the service after the initial hype and benchmarks.

> But the "price per unit of [intelligence/quality]" is getting lower and _fast_.

Absolutely not a general trend across models. At best, older models are getting cheaper to run. Newer models are not cheaper "per unit of intelligence". OpenAI's fany new reasoning models are orders of magnitude more expensive to run whilst being ~linear improvements in real world capabilities.