One estimate of how much annual revenue AI needs to “make sense”: 1.6 trillion. That’s four times what Google made in its best year. (total revenue so far is perhaps on order of 100 billion.)
ECONOMY
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The Economic Barrier Between AI Model Ownership and Wrappers
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Unless you own the models it is a wrapper, and training models costs $100M-$1B
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The High Cost of Training AI Models
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Yep unless you own the models it is, and training models costs $100M-$1B
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A 20-year-old earns $37,250 with an AI content factory
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Un jeune de 20 ans a généré 37 250 $ en un seul mois grâce à du contenu YouTube… sans presque jamais ouvrir un logiciel de montage.
— Jouhatsu | AI Influence Operator (@Jouhatsu_ai) 10 mai 2026
Il a construit une véritable “content factory” autonome où Claude agit comme le cerveau et Premiere Pro comme le corps.
Pendant qu’il dort, sort… https://t.co/NRJJAfFlcS pic.twitter.com/stmnqZEnudA 20-year-old generated $37,250 in a single month through YouTube content… without almost ever opening editing software. He built a true autonomous “content factory” where Claude acts as the brain and Premiere Pro as the body. While he sleeps, goes out
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The rising value of human-AI creative collaboration
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as ai makes imitation cheaper and cheaper the value of using AI and your brain to make totally new things goes up
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IndiaAI Mission Initiatives Aim to Reduce AI Compute Costs
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@SecretaryMEITY, highlights how the IndiaAI Mission is making AI compute more affordable—bringing costs down to nearly one-third of current market rates and expanding access to AI innovation across the Global South.#IndiaAI #DigitalIndia #AIforAll #AICompute #GlobalSouth… pic.twitter.com/TGv0lT3Wm1
— IndiaAI (@OfficialINDIAai) 9 mai 2026@SecretaryMEITY
, highlights how the IndiaAI Mission is making AI compute more affordable—bringing costs down to nearly one-third of current market rates and expanding access to AI innovation across the Global South. #IndiaAI #DigitalIndia #AIforAll #AICompute #GlobalSouth -
Investment opportunities in the AI market
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Generational opportunity for anyone in AI to play the markets given this time lag. Guarantee everyone is psyched about Codex in a few months. Invest accordingly
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AI’s hidden job impact: From global data workers to US growth.
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I've spent years interviewing data workers who are the lifeblood of the AI industry in countries like Kenya, Colombia, and the Philippines.
— Karen Hao (@_KarenHao) 8 mai 2026
Now it's the #4 fastest growing job in the U.S.
AI is coming for your job, and it's not in the way that you think. https://t.co/kUaG0TE3paI've spent years interviewing data workers who are the lifeblood of the AI industry in countries like Kenya, Colombia, and the Philippines. Now it's the #4 fastest growing job in the U.S. AI is coming for your job, and it's not in the way that you think.
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Reflecting on the exponential growth and global impact of AI
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At its current exponential growth, Anthropic's annualized revenue will hit 100% of global GDP in early 2028. Do I think this will happen? No. Is it insane that this is the current trajectory, and we should all be preparing for AI to rapidly change the world we live in? Yes.
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AI is like the horse, not the coachman
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We’re constantly told that AI is like the automobile: the coachman loses his job, but he retrains as a chauffeur. Except the right metaphor isn’t the coachman. It’s the horse. The coachman lost his tool. The horse, on the other hand, discovered that an economy could carry on