The new AI calculus: Google’s 80% cost edge vs. OpenAI’s ecosystem

The new AI calculus: Google’s 80% cost edge vs. OpenAI’s ecosystem

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The relentless pace of generative AI innovation shows no signs of slowing. In just the past couple of weeks, OpenAI dropped its powerful o3 and o4-mini reasoning models alongside the GPT-4.1 series, while Google countered with Gemini 2.5 Flash, rapidly iterating on its flagship Gemini 2.5 Pro released shortly before. For enterprise technical leaders…


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