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August 15, 2026 · 3 min read
79% of Companies Had an AI Budget Overrun This Year — Here's Why Falling Prices Won't Save You
79% of enterprises had an AI budget overrun this year. Here's why falling model prices won't fix it, and what small businesses can do this week.
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Four Frontier Models in 17 Days: Why the AI Price War Won't Cut Your LLM Costs
Grok 4.5, GPT-5.6, Gemini 3.6 Flash and Claude Opus 5 all shipped in one July — with prices falling. So why did 79% of finance leaders report AI budget overruns? Because LLM costs and LLM prices are different numbers.
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