Zuckerberg saying he expects to hire more customer support people after deploying AI is not a PR line. The unit economics of that statement are actually straightforward once you run them.
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SaaS Subscription Markups Face Developer Pushback Soon
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Not necessarily, but it's clear that SaaS companies relying on arbitrary markups will struggle to justify their subscription tiers to devs soon
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Deployment costs expected to drop significantly
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Yup, I think deployment costs are going to drop significantly 🙂
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AI Trade Secrets Disclosure Impact on Corporate Competition
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Comme si Coca-Cola avec publié toute la recette précise de sa drogue buvable ou si McDonald’s avait publié toute la recette précise de sa sauce chimique pour BigMac.
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Tech Companies Face Energy Independence Requirements Under New Pledge
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Did you read about the Ratepayer Protection Pledge? Essentially all tech companies have to build, bring or bit their own energy so they cannot force price/utility hikes on to consumers. That is a small price for them to pay (treating energy-generation as part of their core tech
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Services comprise 81% of British economy structure
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And worth remembering that 81% of the British economy is comprised of services.
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Token Economics: Computing Power Becomes the New Scarce Resource
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You don’t fundamentally understand that the measure of productivity is going to be tokens per watt, not human labour. And when the tokens are in severe shortage, they will become very expensive, and they will distributed to those who can afford them. (Not to dissimilar to what
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OpenAI Reaches Billion Users Fastest Growth Platform Ever
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“OpenAI was the fastest technology platform to reach 10 million users, the fastest to 100 million users, and soon the fastest to 1 billion weekly active users. Within a year of launching ChatGPT, we reached $1B in revenue. By the end of 2024 we were generating $1B per quarter.
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Energy and Efficiency Constraints in Exponential AI Demand Growth
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Extraordinary. Energy and efficiency are the constraints to an ever-growing (exponential) need for Intelligence. Demand is massively going to outpace supply.
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Task Automation Impact on Jobs and Economic Implications
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i agree (except the word “most”), but note that tasks aren’t jobs, and replacing 4% might be negligible or serious depending on how those tasks relate to the jobs and the costs involved.