Intelligence is Free, Now What? <br> Data Systems for, of, and by Agents

... government of the people, by the people, for the people ... &mdash; Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863) The cost of AI is dropping rapidly. GPT-4-class capabilities cost roughly $30 per million tokens in early 2023; today the same runs under $1 , and some providers are pushing costs below $0.10 . Across benchmarks, inference prices have fallen between 9x and 900x per year , with a…