Are the Costs of AI Agents Also Rising Exponentially? (11 minute read)

The length of tasks AI agents can perform has been growing exponentially over the last seven years. The latest models can (sometimes) do tasks that would take a human a few hours. However, the cost to achieve these time horizons is growing exponentially, and the hourly costs for some models are now close to human costs. There will eventually be a divergence between what time horizon is possible and what is economically feasible.