Eventually I would bet on ai using its own non human readable languages (brains?) to program in to reduce overhead.

It will be a black box, and the code will be generated just in time by ai for each api request

What happens when the price of tokens goes to 0?

The open weight models are nipping on the heels of frontier models. The frontier labs have to make forward progress and keep tokens cheap in order to maintain marketshare.

Eventually, we'll have a Mythos-level model running on integrated hardware on every PC.

I think this is going to happen sooner than most people think.