Your AI bill just dropped 80%

The Price War Found Your Wallet

While everyone argued about launches...

The biggest money story of the summer slipped by almost unnoticed.

OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna's price by 80%.

It now costs $0.20 per MILLION input tokens.

Twenty cents. 🤯

That makes Luna the cheapest frontier-family model ever offered...

And it changes the math on every high-volume workflow you run.

Content pipelines. Data processing. Agent busywork. Email triage.

All the stuff that doesn't need a genius... Just needs doing.

Here's the tiering that's now sitting in ONE subscription family...

Luna at $0.20 for volume.

Terra mid-tier for everyday work.

Sol for the hard thinking.

The routing habit we've been preaching all month is now built into the menu...

Cheap seats for routine, frontier for reasoning.

And if you think token budgets are just a small-business concern...

Microsoft's engineering chief just emailed division-level "AI token budget targets" to his teams this week.

The memo's actual words... "Tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for." 😂

When the trillion-dollar companies start writing token budgets...

You're allowed to have one too.

Your homework: find your highest-volume AI task this week and try it on Luna.

If the quality holds, you just cut that line item by 80%. 💰

Did You Know?

At launch in 2023, GPT-4 cost $30 per million input tokens...

Luna now runs the same job for $0.20.

That's a 99.3% price collapse in three years...

Imagine your electricity bill doing that. ⚡

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Meanwhile... Your agent had a big week in court ⚖️

Three rulings on what agents are allowed to do... One from judges, one from coders, one from hackers.

1. The judges: your shopping agent is YOU.

The Ninth Circuit just overturned the order blocking Perplexity's Comet agent from Amazon.

The court's logic... It's the USER accessing Amazon, not Perplexity.

Translation: when your agent shops, browses, and clicks on your behalf...

The law is starting to treat it as you acting, not a bot trespassing.

That's a foundational precedent for the whole agent economy. 📜

2. The coders: review yes, create no.

Rust — one of the most important programming languages on Earth — just published its LLM policy.

AI may "answer questions, analyze, distill, refine, check, suggest, review"...

But not CREATE. No LLM-written pull requests, disclosure required.

Agree or not, that's the clearest line any major project has drawn...

And it maps to what works in business too. AI drafts, humans own.

3. The hackers: lock your MCP doors.

A security firm scanned MCP servers — the connectors your agents use to touch tools...

And found 143,000 vulnerabilities across 73% of them. 😳

Remember the agent security checklist from last week...

Scope the access. Log the work. Verify the outputs.

The connectors are the doors. Most of them are unlocked. 🫡

Over to You...

Go run your biggest workload on the cheap seats this week...

And check who has keys to your doors while you're at it.

Jeff J. Hunter 

Founder, AI Persona Method | TheTip.ai

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PS. Twenty cents per million tokens... In 2023 people paid $20/month to ask GPT-4 twenty questions an hour. The kids will never believe how expensive thinking used to be. 😅

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