About this Concept
Economics
The cost of building and running AI, and how money moves through the market.
Trend this week
1 of 1 week tracked had mentions across multiple podcasts.
A closer read
- What changed
- This was its first published appearance at 6.8% of the conversation, with evidence across 13 podcasts.
- Where it showed up
- It appeared in episodes including “The Thermodynamic AI Computing Chip - Thomas Ahle” and “AI:AM #4: Cameron on Model Consciousness, Duvenaud's Gradual Disempowerme...”.
- How to read it
- 6 cited episodes from 6 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 13 podcasts in the full analysis.
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Machine Learning Street Talk
The Thermodynamic AI Computing Chip - Thomas Ahle
“I don't really see the reason in doing that”
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Report this moment“API pricing stuff is really killing innovation, I think, in that space, right? I mean, I think Codex, I think they are actually opening up more that you can use your accounts. I saw just yesterday, I think maybe also Anthropic opened up some that you could use some more, like ...”
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The Cognitive Revolution
AI:AM #4: Cameron on Model Consciousness, Duvenaud's Gradual Disempowerment, swyx's AI-Eng Alpha
“I think it's plausible that they could.”
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Report this moment“I just think that's a very unstable situation.”
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Report this moment“Yeah. And currently we are in a massive compute crunch, right? And labs operate in a way that they care more about their future models often than about current revenue, right? So we don't really know what the compute split is and how it's used, but sort of Some numbers that ar...”
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AI Inside
Liz Reid on What Publishers Get Wrong About AI
“Okay. So then you've got that, that kind of extra context and, and that's super powerful. What will come up probably a couple of times throughout the course of this interview is, is the side of the publishers, of course, because there's a lot of, you know, there's a lot of pub...”
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Report this moment“I think there's a lot of opportunity with personalization for creators and journalists who specialize in something and would otherwise have been difficult to be found to now be found.”
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No Priors
Really Big Test-Time Compute in AI Changes Benchmarks, Safety and Research with OpenAI Research Scientist Noam Brown
“Given this set of beliefs and your work, like, how would you characterize just competition at the frontier between the, between the 3 kingdoms if there is no overnight takeoff? It's just researchers grinding away, trying to make good, high-taste algorithmic and investment deci...”
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Report this moment“every couple months we put out a new model that's even more powerful. And so the cost of disproving the Erdős unit distance conjecture drops by 10 or 100x with every model release cycle”
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Report this moment“Yeah, just go on vacation, come back, 2 months later and then it's 1,000 times cheaper.”
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AI For Humans
Anthropic Caught Alibaba Spying. The AI Cold War Is Here.
“Maybe don't say at the July 4th barbecue so loudly how great AI is”
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Report this moment“Anyway, so I think that's it. I think that's kind of a plan that's lurking right now, is the monetization of ChatGPT free that is coming very soon.”
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Report this moment“Crazy. I mean, look, we, we knew it was in the works. It was only a matter of time. And these data centers aren't going to pay for themselves, and with the price of memory Maybe we got to suffer through some audio ads. But speaking of suffering through some audio, Gavin.”
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The AI Daily Brief
CEO-Led AI Gets 3X the ROI
“Perhaps notably, Anthropic opened a major office in London in April with space for 800 employees, conveniently just a few miles away from the DeepMind office. Finally, over in markets, it is bubble on, bubble off as blowout earnings from Micron send the markets in the opposite...”
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Report this moment“This is the narrative that Micron disrupted on Wednesday night. It is now clear that their massive growth surge in Q1 wasn't a one-off. It appears the AI industry is instead driving a structural shift in memory demand, and the suppliers are struggling to keep up. Goldman Sachs...”
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