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- Small AI models are now as smart as prior flagship models, enabling new strategies for agentic analytics that prioritize speed and cost over raw intelligence.
- OpenAI's GPT 5.6 Luna, with an 80% price cut, achieves 99.8% accuracy on SQL benchmarks at a 5x lower price than Gemini-3-Flash, and even 10x cheaper on semantic modeling benchmarks due to model caching improvements.
- Luna occupies a new section of the price/performance curve, offering speed and cost efficiency for tasks that don't require maximum intelligence, such as SQL generation.
- Practical steps include switching to Luna on max effort for low-intelligence tasks and asking more questions (Jevons Paradox) to leverage the technology's improved performance.