The price per token for AI models has fallen, but costs for developers are rising as newer reasoning models require more tokens to complete tasks (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal : The price per token for AI models has fallen, but costs for developers are rising as newer reasoning models require more tokens to complete tasks —  With models doing more ‘thinking,’ the small companies that buy AI from the giants to create apps and services are feeling the pinch