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Gary Tan predicts that frontier model compute costs will drop to $50-100 in 2-3 years (by 2028-2029)

On a16z Podcast · unverified speaker · a16z Podcast · Aug 12, 2026

“the Frontier model compute of today will be, like, maybe 50 or $100 in, like, two or three years”

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