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The Self-Driving Company
“over the next, honestly, 6 to 12 months, all the pieces will find their way into some tool somewhere”
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Jul 13–Oct 4, 2026 · 12 published weeks
In the latest report, the remaining 1% of attention can include unpublished topics and podcasts with no qualifying discussion.
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Economics · 6.2% · Jul 13–19, 2026 · Losing attention in the latest report
Economics
The cost of building and running AI, and how money moves through the market.
Jul 13–19, 2026
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Economics · Jul 13–19, 2026
A closer read
- What changed
- This was its first published appearance at 6.2% of the conversation, with evidence across 11 podcasts.
- Where it showed up
- It appeared in episodes including “The Self-Driving Company” and “Is Kimi K3 Really Fable Class?”.
- How to read it
- 6 cited episodes from 4 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 11 podcasts in the full analysis.
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Is Kimi K3 Really Fable Class?
“specifically that it was incorrect to lump this in with DeepSeek-style models, which are super cheap and easy to run.”
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AI For Humans
Kimi K3 Is Here. China Just Hit the AI Frontier.
“those got cheaper now and your limits are gonna be reset”
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Report this moment“This pushes everything forward.”
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Report this moment“why is the entire account disabled because you hit one usage limit?”
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Practical AI
The Future of AI Infrastructure with CoreWeave
“So really, really interesting. And like one of the questions I really wanted to get in for, I'm taking a slight curve on this, is as you are servicing and providing more and more capability to people, people are always talking about the cost of things. I don't mean the cost of...”
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Report this moment“enable people to do more with less, right?”
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The New Enterprise Battle Over Who Owns the Model
“you gotta think that this just means more quality options for us. So I'm excited to see what they do.”
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Report this moment“At this stage, there's no solid rumors— all we know is that Apple is in the market to buy their way back into the AI race, which will be music to Apple fans' ears. Now, our last story today is actually kind of a setup to the main episode. Microsoft is preparing their sales tea...”
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Latent Space
🔬 The Lab of the Future Should Feel Like a Data Center — Andy Beam & Rafa Gómez-Bombarelli, Lila Sciences
“So I want to quote Sri Kosuri from Octant Bio, who had a great tweet I really loved, you know, a few weeks ago. It was, what is the business model in ML for drug discovery? Because If you need the data to train the model, but if you have the data, what do you need the model for?”
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