Cost-per-Task Gap Widens Across Frontier Models as Apple Cuts Internal AI Budget
Artificial Analysis compared how many Intelligence Index tasks a fixed $100 budget buys: roughly 40 tasks with Opus 5.5 at high reasoning effort versus about 166 for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and 2,500 for GPT-6 Luna, exposing a wide spread in per-task inference cost across frontier models. In parallel, Apple cut engineers' daily AI usage budgets from $300 to $200, with plans to drop to $100 and $25 for some teams, signalling that enterprises now treat cost-per-task as a core deployment metric. The figures are observational and come without disclosed methodology; no model release or capability upgrade is involved.
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A $100 budget buys 40 Intelligence Index tasks (a mix of task archetypes) with Opus 5.5 at medium reasoning effort, or 10 tasks at max effort. The same $100 is 166 tasks with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (max) or 2,500 with GPT-6 Luna (medium).
↳ 引用 @markgurman (Mark Gurman): NEW: Apple is cutting employee AI spending budgets even as it pushes workers to use the technology more. Engineers have seen daily limits cut from $300 to $200, with further reductions to $100 planned. Other teams could see limits fall to $25. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-04/apple-cuts-internal-ai-usage-budgets-in-move-to-reduce-spending?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc5MzgyMTg3MSwiZXhwIjoxNzk0NDI2NjcxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUTlhPMzdLSzNOWTkwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNEVEQ0FFMUZBMDU0MEJFQTI0QTlGMjExQzFFOTA4MCJ9.efg5gZUg_bpWGkDdX9in4eLTEutSs8WX9rD17IHSi_o
