The Golden Era Of AI Is Coming To An End & Here Is Why (Part 1)

Andrew Miles Davis opens a new series on why the golden era of AI is coming to an end, drawing on 25 years of working through every major digital opportunity window including AdWords at a penny a click, the MySpace and YouTube era, and the rise of short form content across Vine, Instagram, and TikTok. His argument is that each era ended when platforms needed to monetise, and AI is no different. In this first episode he focuses on advertising, explaining why the current experience of getting uninterrupted, unsponsored answers from large language models is historically unusual and commercially unsustainable, and why the arrival of ads will change not just the experience but the trust people place in the results they receive. He also covers the credit system shift already underway at Gemini and what the likely pricing trajectory looks like over the next two to three years. Subscribe to In AI Nutshell for daily ten-minute episodes that tell you what is actually happening in AI before everyone else catches up.