Sam Altman said everyone at Sun Valley wants to know how to make AI cheaper
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When the Sun Valley conversation shifts to AI unit economics and GPT-5.6 as an efficiency play, you know the boardroom focus is now cost per useful action, not just capability demos. If you’re selling AI into enterprises, expect harder questions on ROI, context-window waste, and inference efficiency this budgeting cycle.
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