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The cost of a fixed ARC-AGI-1 score reportedly falls sharply

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Claim

The newsletter reports the cost of reaching 75% on ARC-AGI-1 falling from $26 per task to about one cent over 19 months, describing the decline as 99.95%.

Reported metric: 75%; $26 to a penny; 19 months; reported 99.95%

Reporting date: 2026-09-30 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to September 30, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
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ARC-AGI-1

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Welcome to September 30, 2026

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The price of reasoning is deflating

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Welcome to September 30, 2026

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The cost of a fixed ARC-AGI-1 score reportedly falls sharply
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-09-30
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-09-30-arc-cost
Claim: The newsletter reports the cost of reaching 75% on ARC-AGI-1 falling from $26 per task to about one cent over 19 months, describing the decline as 99.95%.
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to September 30, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-september-30-2026
- Source linked by the September 30 issue — https://x.com/arcprize/status/2105007700966871247
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