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Agentic capability arrives at a dollar an hour

development2026-02-13

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MiniMax introduced open-weight M2.5 with leading coding and agentic performance at $1 per hour and 100 tokens per second, while OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark for real-time coding above 1,000 tokens per second on Cerebras hardware and Karpathy released microgpt in 200 lines of dependency-free Python.

Reported metric: $1/hour

Reporting date: 2026-02-13 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to February 13, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Karpathy trains a GPT-2 grade model for $73

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Agentic capability arrives at a dollar an hour
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-02-13
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-02-13-intelligence-too-cheap-to-meter
Claim: MiniMax introduced open-weight M2.5 with leading coding and agentic performance at $1 per hour and 100 tokens per second, while OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark for real-time coding above 1,000 tokens per second on Cerebras hardware and Karpathy released microgpt in 200 lines of dependency-free Python.
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- Welcome to February 13, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-february-13-2026
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