Token Pricing

Anthropic's new Claude Haiku 5.5 crushes its predecessor in benchmarks, jumping from 15.7 to 72.4 percent on the OSWorld computer use test. Token prices drop by up to 90 percent, though a new tokenizer eats into some of those savings by consuming more tokens per task.

AI Models • The Decoder

Data from a16z shows a Jevons paradox in the AI market: token prices keep falling, but H100 GPU rental prices hold steady or climb. Cheaper AI drives demand faster than costs drop, which is Jensen Huang's best-case scenario for continued infrastructure investment.

AI Infrastructure • The Decoder