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You are not a model. Don’t price per token.
Charging per token is becoming the default for AI companies. For most AI applications, it is a mistake.
Aug 27
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Tugce Erten
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Sarah Wang
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Intelligence is the Primitive. Applications are the Diffusion Layer.
How durable AI-native products can price, package and productize model gains for industry.
Aug 25
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Anish A
221
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Rise of the Borderless Founder
Your background is your moat
Aug 20
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Gabriel Vasquez
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Angela Strange
222
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Some Simple Economics of Open versus Closed AI
If the weights are free, who pays for the next run, and who will keep us safe?
Aug 11
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Christian Catalini
234
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Banning AI in Law School: We've Seen This Before
Preemptive regulation is the enemy of progress
Jul 15
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Steven Sinofsky
183
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You Just Hired a Million Bad Employees
For the first time in history, humans are cheaper than software
Jul 14
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George Sivulka
335
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Uneven Frontiers
How AI will transform biopharma—and why the sequence of change matters
Jun 17
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Benjamine Liu
176
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Late Stage Venture Is About Late Stage Founders
The right kind of person can keep growing ambitiously, forever
Jun 11
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David George
187
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Everything is Recorded Now
The living context layer is being built inside companies right now, whether they're paying attention or not
Jun 10
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David Haber
258
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Need Series C? Call a16z
Things you might learn about AI adoption from your local plaintiff attorney
May 19
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Alex Danco
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The "AI Job Apocalypse" Is a Complete Fantasy
No evidence, no imagination, no understanding of humans
May 6
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David George
439
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Call the Plumber; We’ve Got a Leaky Abstraction
A model of how things break, for non-doomers
Apr 29
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Alex Danco
173
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