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Where does AI cost really come from?

When they Opus 5.5 is much cheaper than Opus 5.0 or cheaper than Astra or Fable. Where are the costs coming from? They almost seem like arbitrary numbers that are being used to describe efficiency. Are they saying "it uses XXXX amount of hardware to run so we charge $Y dollars per token"? I guess I…

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  1. 2026-10-03 13:25 · r/artificial
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