# Intelligence per Dollar **Entity class:** Economic metric **Domain:** Artificial intelligence / Model economics **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Intelligence per dollar compares useful machine capability with the monetary cost of training, serving, or applying it. ## Mechanism and significance Falling model prices can coexist with expensive chips and data centers when software, utilization, competition, and orchestration increase the cognitive work extracted from each physical resource. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#Model Architecture and Compute Economics|Model Architecture and Compute Economics]] - **Primary fields:** [[Machine Intelligence]] · [[AI Infrastructure]] · [[Compute Race]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[Cost-Performance Frontier]] · [[Intelligence per Parameter]] · [[Model Orchestration]] · [[Orchestrator Model]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.