https://data-today.net/inference-price-uneven/ 2026-05-04T00:00:00.000Z weekly 0.8 https://data-today.net/posts/inference-uneven.png Inference got cheap, but not for the work that pays Three declining lines on a log scale showing LLM inference price falling at 9x, 40x and 900x per year for different task difficulties https://data-today.net/compute-stock-doubling/ 2026-05-06T00:00:00.000Z weekly 0.8 https://data-today.net/posts/compute-stock.png The world's AI compute now doubles every seven months Line chart of cumulative AI compute capacity in millions of H100-equivalents rising steeply from 2022 to 2025 https://data-today.net/context-windows-30x/ 2026-05-09T00:00:00.000Z weekly 0.8 https://data-today.net/posts/context-windows.png Context windows grew 30x a year. Your retrieval stack noticed Line chart of LLM context window maxima in thousands of tokens climbing from 8k in 2023 to about a million in 2025 https://data-today.net/consumer-hardware-lag/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00.000Z weekly 0.8 https://data-today.net/posts/consumer-hardware.png Last year's frontier model now runs on a laptop Two rising lines showing frontier capability and consumer-hardware capability, with the consumer line trailing by about eight months https://data-today.net/gigawatt-buildout/ 2026-05-15T00:00:00.000Z weekly 0.8 https://data-today.net/posts/datacenter-buildout.png The gigawatt build-out is the real AI race now Bar chart comparing AI data center capacities in thousands of H100-equivalents, with a planned 2027 site towering over current ones https://data-today.net/open-models-default/ 2026-05-15T00:00:00.000Z weekly 0.8 https://data-today.net/posts/open-models-hero.png Open-weight models closed the gap to 1.7 points Line chart showing the performance gap between top open-weight and closed AI models shrinking from 8 to under 2 percentage points https://data-today.net/agentic-cancellation-cliff/ 2026-05-18T00:00:00.000Z weekly 0.8 https://data-today.net/posts/agentic-cancellation.png Most agentic AI projects will be cancelled before they ship Descending bar chart showing agentic AI projects thinning out from pilot to production across four stages https://data-today.net/without-ai-quit-my-job/ 2026-05-19T00:00:00.000Z weekly 0.8 https://data-today.net/posts/jobs-chart.png How cheap inference made the one-person studio viable Line chart of LLM inference price collapsing at a fixed performance level from late 2022 to late 2024 https://data-today.net/training-cost-vs-efficiency/ 2026-05-21T00:00:00.000Z weekly 0.8 https://data-today.net/posts/cost-vs-efficiency.png Training costs rise 3.5x a year. Efficiency is the only brake Two rising lines comparing frontier training cost growth at 3.5x per year against compute efficiency gains at 3x per year https://data-today.net/scaling-curve-extrapolate/ 2026-05-22T00:00:00.000Z weekly 0.8 https://data-today.net/posts/compute-scatter.png The scaling curve nobody wants to extrapolate Scatter plot of model capability against training compute on a log scale with a fitted regression line https://data-today.net/compute-geography/ 2026-05-25T00:00:00.000Z weekly 0.8 https://data-today.net/posts/compute-geography.png Three-quarters of the world's AI compute sits in one country Bar chart of global GPU cluster performance share by country, with the United States dominating at about 75 percent https://data-today.net/everyone-automated-everything/ 2026-05-26T00:00:00.000Z weekly 0.8 https://data-today.net/posts/automation-hero.png Everyone automated everything. Then they hired more people. Bar chart of the share of organisations using AI rising from about 50 percent in 2022 to 78 percent in 2024 https://data-today.net/benchmark-heatmap-explainer/ 2026-05-28T00:00:00.000Z weekly 0.8 https://data-today.net/posts/benchmark-heatmap.png The model leaderboard is tightening to a photo finish Heatmap grid of model performance across task categories, with brighter cells marking stronger relative scores https://data-today.net/hardware-value-per-dollar/ 2026-05-28T00:00:00.000Z weekly 0.8 https://data-today.net/posts/hardware-value.png AI chips give 24x more per dollar, if you can afford the sticker Bar chart of AI chip performance per dollar rising across four generations from the P100 baseline to 24x at the GB300 https://data-today.net/agents-working-too-hard/ 2026-05-30T00:00:00.000Z weekly 0.8 https://data-today.net/posts/agent-throughput-line.png Your agents are working too hard Bar chart of how often developers use AI agents at work, with the largest group reporting no plans to adopt them https://data-today.net/capability-acceleration/ 2026-05-31T00:00:00.000Z weekly 0.8 https://data-today.net/posts/capability-accel.png AI capability stopped slowing down. 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