Much has been written regarding the questionable economics of the AI space, but most of the discussion revolves around high-level concepts like market shares, datacentre investments, and power expenditure. The general expectation of technology is that it gets cheaper as it improves, but the AI space has a rather peculiar problem: Usage costs are actually soaring even as models get better. With all the advancements in models over the last two years, having a bot that answers questions of simple-to-moderate difficulty is now old news, as they all do that with reasonable accuracy. …