Issue 002 put the deflation at 390x in a year. Six days later the comparison is 500x against a single prior model.
Development
Gemini 3 Flash matches a year-old frontier ARC-AGI score at 500x lower cost
Claim
Gemini 3 Flash achieved the same ARC-AGI-1 score o3 reached a year earlier at more than 500x lower cost, and beat GPT-5.2 on cost by 6x.
Reported metric: >500x cheaper
Reporting date: (not necessarily the event date)
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