Your margin is my opportunity: AI version…
The biggest surprise of 2026 is that the capability gap between the best open-weight/source models and the best closed models has narrowed much faster than the pricing gap. The pricing gap remains enormous while the capability gap is quite narrow.
What does this means in practice?
For a company consuming 1 billion input tokens and 1 billion output tokens per month:
GPT-5.5 Pro: ~$105,000
Claude Opus 4.8: ~$30,000
DeepSeek V4 Pro: ~$5,220
DeepSeek R1: ~$2,740
I asked ChatGPT what it thought about this and it answered as follows:
“If I were building a company today, the economic frontier would look roughly like:
DeepSeek V4 Pro / R1 for high-volume inference.
Claude Opus for premium agent workflows where reliability matters.
GPT-5.5 Pro only for workloads where its incremental capability demonstrably produces enough business value to justify a 20–40× token premium.”
Most CEOs have no idea that, instead of this nuanced approach, their teams are running amok internally by picking the most expensive models in most cases and burning through massive budgets with zero governance, audit ability and control.
As control planes like our Software Factory become more standard, you can expect the run rate revenue growth of the frontier labs to go down meaningfully and the revenues of the open models to skyrocket.
Why? Because we can implement the nuanced approach above and be agnostic to model - instead focusing on customer intent, model task and cost management among other things.
$zbase
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匿名团队,我感觉风险很大,dyor
项目介绍:
•定位:AI Agent专用的零知识隐私支付轨道(Private payments for AI agents)。 解决的问题:x402(Agent支付标准)过去12个月已交易2.91亿刀,但全部暴露(对手能反推你的交易策略、持仓等)。zBase是“唯一专为agentic commerce打造的隐私轨道”。
•技术栈:
◦Fork自 Vitalik Buterin的Privacy Pools(2023),再向上游fork 0xbow($3.5M seed)。
◦用 Groth16 ZK证明 + on-chain ASP gates,实现“Compliant by construction”(合规原生设计)。
◦支持 Base + Solana,x402链/代币无关(chain & token agnostic)。
◦Kohaku-aligned,获 Base Batches 003 Finalist。
•核心功能:让AI Agent做支付/交易时完全隐私(不暴露策略),同时保持x402兼容。官网 slogan:P R I V A C Y F O R A G E N T S + “Privacy is for all, including your agents”。
•当前进度:已达 MVP(5月26日深夜3点多,关闭30+ issues)。正在狂推“大更新”(full privacy重大改进),欢迎用过隐私工具的user/agent私信反馈。测试时记得加“Agent Builder”角色。
•入口:https://t.co/2kJojgwycR (直接点“Be first in line”加入waitlist,已100+人)
项目调性:极早期、极专注隐私的Base生态小项目,dev很卷(24/7 building),社区目前小但在推waitlist。
创始人/团队背景
完全没有公开信息。
I have been offline for the last 24 hours.
During a training session, I sustained an injury, and my right arm is currently out of commission.
The doctor’s orders are strict: zero keyboard use. I will not be able to write or code for the next few days while I focus on a fast recovery.
But I am not completely disconnected.
This exact post was dictated and published entirely hands-free using Sussurro for Android, developed by @spettrotoken.
Building robust tools means having the right infrastructure when you need it most.
Currently recovering (resting the hardware).