OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said running AI is getting cheaper, not more expensive.

According to Altman, the cost of running different levels of AI goes down ten-fold every 12 months, and so that leads to wider usage.

Altman used OpenAI's GPT-4o as an example.

According to him, GPT-4o (mid 2024) cost 150 times less than GPT, launched just a year earlier in early 2023.

As he explained in a blog post.

The fact that running AI models is expensive is a recurring criticism of AI.

The fact that so many people fear a Terminator Skynet-style end of the world is another.