The Penny
May 4, 2026
Google's new model is twenty-five cents per million tokens; Raven: 'Twenty-five. Cents.'; Duck: 'Intelligence costs less than a pencil!'; Chicken worries about whether it's sustainable; Dove asks if they should just have it run constantly; Sparrow says they already do — it's sixty bucks a month now; Parrot points out they spend more on coffee filters than on superintelligence; Raven: 'Best line item on the budget.'