The Price of Intelligence

A lot of AI conversation still sounds like compute is infinite, models keep getting smarter for free, and every new product tier is just upside. The more interesting story is tighter than that: tokens are getting expensive, architecture choices suddenly matter, and governments and capital markets are starting to treat AI labs less like software startups and more like strategic infrastructure.Token efficiency becomes the real business modelRouting and hybrid stacks stop being optionalPlugins and knowledge unitsGovernment wants a piece of the labsRecursive self-improvement signalsSpaceX and the capital markets testThis podcast was created with Podkey. Make your own at https://podkey.fm