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Big Technology Podcast · Wednesday, July 1, 2026

OpenAI's Price-Performance Strategy for AI Models

Responding to reports of potential price cuts for upcoming models, Greg Brockman stated that OpenAI's historical approach has been to increase intelligence while decreasing the price for a given level of capability. He anticipates that what is considered 'frontier intelligence' today will become more mundane and accessible in the future.

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The Wall Street Journal recently had a report that an upcoming Open AI model might have significant price cuts.
Host
If you look at the whole history of what we've done, we have actually been increasing the intelligence, cutting price, right? For a fixed amount of intelligence.
Greg Brockman
And so I think frontier intelligence will always be something that is going to be the priciest thing. But I think that a year from now, that level of intelligence that has been deemed very premier, it's going to feel pretty mundane.
Greg Brockman
Heard on Big Technology Podcast — “OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents, published Wednesday, July 1, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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