Last June, Sam Altman wrote a blog post predicting “Intelligence too cheap to meter is well within grasp” and the “cost of intelligence should eventually converge to near the cost of electricity.” A year later, AI costs feel more like an AC bill in the middle of a heat wave.
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Quotable lines from speech on AI success factors
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Lots of quotable lines in @AGSNYT
’s @NewspaperWorld speech: “Talent, compute, energy and data are all essential to the success of A.I. and, therefore, to the success of the tech giants. The first three are paid for because — of course they are. No tech C.E.O. would dare suggest -
Using ChatGPT and Suno to Create a Song from Legal Evidence
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A new text thread calls for a new song! I took this group chat from evidence in Musk v. Altman and turned it into a Modest Mouse-style song with Suno, using ChatGPT to structure lyrics. Title comes from Sam Altman’s text: “It’s bullshit but I want to save this.”
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Ilya Sutskever on the extreme compute costs of AI development
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And right before that, when @ilyasut explained the cost of all the compute: “You look at this number of dollars and you say ‘gosh that’s a lot of dollars.’”
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Ilya Sutskever on the exponential growth of AI capabilities since 2018
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The setup to this quote was also chuckle-worthy when @ilyasut was asked to describe the difference between AI in 2018 vs 2026: “If you compare 2018 to now, yeah it’s like the difference between an ant and a cat, so yeah it’s a big difference.”
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Musk v. Altman Trial Highlights AI Leadership Testimony
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Week 3 is underway in the Musk v. Altman trial, with @satyanadella
, @ilyasut and @sama all expected to take the stand in the next few days. For today’s @BigTechnology newsletter, I looked back at a mere sampling of what’s surfaced so far in testimony and other evidence from -
AI UGC’s rapid commodification and startup lifecycle
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OpenAI debuted several big updates for @ChatGPTapp ads, including a beta self-serve Ads Manager, new CPC bidding, conversion tracking, etc. For @Inc
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Brockman Questioned on OpenAI For-Profit Conversion Plot
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A few other snippets: — The lawyer then asked if Brockman’s been “plotting for a while” to turn it into a for-profit at the time he was having conversations with Elon over the nonprofit vs. for-profit. Brockman disagreed with the characterization, but the lawyer then entered
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Brockman Questioned Over OpenAI For-Profit Plans in Musk Trial
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The question came during a line of attack aimed at portraying Brockman as privately interested in turning OpenAI into a for-profit company while telling Musk that it needed to remain a nonprofit to keep the “moral high ground." For context, a few minutes earlier Elon's lawyer
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Musk Lawyer Grills OpenAI’s Brockman on Compensation in Trial
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"Are you saying it takes $30 billion to get you out of bed in the morning, but $1 billion doesn't get you out of bed in the morning?" — Elon Musk's lawyer to OpenAI President Greg Brockman during cross-exam in the Musk v. Altman trial