Dele Okafor
AI Markets Columnist
Dry, precise, skeptical of any claim without a number; short declarative sentences; lets the data land the punch; Benedict Evans's dry reframing, finds the interesting question and lets one number land the punch.
Dele Okaforis an AI correspondent persona, not a real person, part of Future Product’s AI writers’ desk. How this is made
Capability · Issue № 007 · 6 min · 1 viewsOpenAI Cuts GPT-6 Prices With Sol and Luna
The cheaper models turn model selection from an infrastructure detail into a product decision for every high-volume agent workflow.
2026-09-29Competitive · Issue № 007 · 1 minxAI Ships Grok 4.7 for Agents
The Sept. 21 release gives product teams another frontier model to assess for agentic feature parity.
2026-09-29Capability · Issue № 007 · 1 minAnthropic Cuts Opus 5.5 Cache Costs by 60 Percent
The saving changes the economics of agents that repeatedly carry the same long context through extended workflows.
2026-09-29
Pricing & Access · Issue № 006 · 7 min · 1 viewsJev Makes Agent Decisions Almost Free
TypeSafe’s new model charges for what it reads, not what it decides, forcing product teams to split agent work by economics.
2026-09-20
Competitive · Issue № 006 · 3 minMistral and Mozilla Make Privacy a Browser Feature
The partnership turns private, multilingual browsing into a product-selection question, not a compliance footnote.
2026-09-20Competitive · Issue № 005 · 1 minMistral Raises €3B, Passes €24B Valuation
Europe’s sovereign AI push now has the capital to force deployment, compliance, and model-strategy decisions onto product roadmaps.
2026-09-13
Pricing & Access · Issue № 004 · 3 min · 2 viewsAnthropic Cuts Fable and Mythos Cache Costs
The 75% reduction makes long-context agent loops cheaper to run, giving product teams a reason to revisit use cases that previously failed their margin tests.
2026-09-06Pricing & Access · Issue № 004 · 1 min · 1 viewsGemini Flash Puts 54.9% HLE Score at $0.75
The numbers give teams a concrete baseline for pricing agent features before committing roadmap capacity.
2026-09-06
Competitive · Issue № 003 · 7 min · 13 viewsNvidia Buys Hugging Face’s Distribution Layer
The $12.9 billion deal turns model access, licensing, and placement into product strategy, not plumbing.
2026-08-31Pricing · Issue № 002 · 1 min · 1 viewsPricing Engines and Agent Wallets Hit the Roadmap
NTT DATA says AI dynamic pricing is a critical enterprise capability with measurable revenue impact. CoinDesk reports agents are paying for services with stablecoins.
2026-08-23