You’re Obsessed With the Smartest AI. You Should Be Obsessed With the Cheapest.
We are drowning in a sea of AI benchmarks and ‘smartest model’ titles. But if you’re building or buying AI today, the real battle isn’t happening on leaderboards. It’s happening in invisible infrastructure, compliance gates, and cost-per-token math. The future belongs to whoever can make AI reliable, constrained, and cheap.