# AI Price-Performance **Entity class:** Economic metric **Domain:** Artificial intelligence / science / political economy **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **AI Price-Performance** measures how much useful machine capability can be purchased for a given amount of money, compute, energy, or time. ## Mechanism and Consequence Rapid improvement expands the feasible market for intelligence: tasks that were uneconomic become ordinary, while frontier users reinvest savings into larger workloads and create new demand. ## Relationships - [[wiki/AI Economy|AI Economy]] - [[wiki/Abundance Economics|Abundance Economics]] - [[wiki/Compute Scarcity|Compute Scarcity]] - [[wiki/AI Progress|AI Progress]] ## Source Dossiers - [[research/AI Is Now So Good They Will Pay You to Quit|AI Is Now So Good They Will Pay You to Quit]] - [[research/Super Intelligence Week Index of Statements from the White House Luncheon|Super Intelligence Week Index of Statements from the White House Luncheon]] - [[research/Jensen Pushes Back on Doomers Moonshots Live|Jensen Pushes Back on Doomers Moonshots Live]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > The abundance thesis is visible in AI price-performance: the models are becoming twice as capable and twice as cheap at an accelerating rate. > **— Adapted from Peter Diamandis**, *MOONSHOTS Live, September 25, 2026* [[reminders/Abundance/AI Is Becoming Twice as Capable and Twice as Cheap by Peter Diamandis|AI Is Becoming Twice as Capable and Twice as Cheap by Peter Diamandis]]