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AI Bubble: ‘Frontier models have run their course’ | Eli the Computer Guy

Season 1

“The argument for building more of these AI data centers is getting worse by the day.”


Eli the Computer Guy joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to discuss OpenAI’s reported inference halving breakthrough and how the astronomical spending by the AI industry has created a vulnerability to innovation.

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