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Better Offline — Monologue: AI Hits A Wall
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Monologue: AI Hits A Wall

Better Offline

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how Anthropic and OpenAI’s revenue growth is decelerating, and how OpenAI’s pause on model development and collapsing economics create the very real possibility it could collapse. EDITOR’s NOTE: I incorrectly say at the beginning of this that NVIDIA’s…

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My bank account has an annualized run rate of $10.9 TRILLION based on the last 23 milliseconds when my paycheck was deposited.

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Next week with Cal Newport! Yesssss

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Ed please have a party tour when the AI bubble collapses. I would love to meet my fellow Zitronites.

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