The value/competency may approach that of a human but the price won't necessarily follow. Price will be determined by market forces. If compute is cheap and com

The value/competency may approach that of a human but the price won't necessarily follow. Price will be determined by market forces. If compute is cheap and competition is fierce then the price can be near free even if it is at human-level intelligence. Then there will be a lot of surplus value created because buyers would be happy to pay $50/million tokens but only have to pay $0.1/million tokens thanks to competition. Frontier models will probably always be expensive though, because frontier by definition means you're sucking up all the available compute which will probably always be expensive.