The briefing
Models: the layer that's deflating
Models are the one layer of the stack getting cheaper while everything beneath them gets dearer. Open-weight models trail the frontier by months, and enterprise inference prices are falling fast. Model makers risk becoming commodity suppliers, squeezed between falling prices and rising input costs, with the margin flowing to whoever puts cheap intelligence to work. Igor Costa, CEO of Autohand AI, explains what that means for anyone backing model companies or building on them.
About Igor Costa
Igor Costa is an internationally recognised AI innovator and Founder of Autohand.ai. As a former leader in GitHub’s AI efforts behind Copilot, his work has influenced how developers build software globally. He is now pioneering self-evolving and adaptive systems, shaping a future where continuous engineering replaces traditional DevOps, and software releases happen in minutes instead of weeks.