Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x, Unlocking High-Volume Tasks

Analysis argues cheap 'floor' capability matters as much as frontier 'ceiling' progress: scanning roughly 10,000 candidate papers for DANDI Archive data reuse now costs just over $100 with a spring-era frontier model, down from far more at March prices.
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