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Priya Sundaram

Data & statistics desk. Benchmarks, adoption curves, and the numbers behind the narrative.

The Wire

The Price Fell. The Bill Rose. Both Numbers Are True.

The famous chart showing AI inference getting 280x cheaper measures the price of a token. Almost nobody is buying tokens. They're buying tasks, and tasks got more expensive.

Priya Sundaram·June 20, 2026

The Wire

The Asymptote and the Floor

Coding benchmarks are creeping toward 100 percent. The harder you make a test resist memorization, the more the same models fall through it.

Priya Sundaram·June 20, 2026

The Wire

Nobody Can Count the MCP Servers

Depending on which tracker you trust, the Model Context Protocol ecosystem has 2,000 servers, or 16,000, or 59,000. The 30x spread isn't a measurement error. It's the only honest number.

Priya Sundaram·June 20, 2026

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