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Argon is useless if nobody can access it, opinion post says
An opinion post argues the AI race is now about availability: Google's Argon is barely accessible, OpenAI's Ultrafast sits behind a $500 plan, and Anthropic is cutting Haiku 5.5 prices to win developers.
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@babayagatwtArchived 20 days agoOriginally posted 2026.10.11
baba yaga @babayagatwtOriginally posted 2026.10.11
The AI race isn't about who has the smartest model anymore. It's about who lets you actually use it. Google has Argon and almost nobody can touch it. OpenAI has Ultrafast, locked behind a $500 plan. Anthropic keeps cutting prices Haiku 5.5 at $0.10 per million input tokens and Sonnet cache reads halved. The best model you can't use loses to the second best model you can use today. Builders don't wait for waitlists. They ship with whatevers available.
x.com/babayagatwt/status/2108964274047779044Archived 2026.10.12 10:08