
AI Price War: Race to Zero Activated
OpenAI and Anthropic are getting squeezed as Google, DeepSeek, and Meta slash AI prices toward zero. The foundation model business is commoditizing faster than the valuations can handle.

OpenAI and Anthropic are getting squeezed as Google, DeepSeek, and Meta slash AI prices toward zero. The foundation model business is commoditizing faster than the valuations can handle.

Meta admits its free-model strategy is dead. Llama was supposed to democratize AI—instead it became raw material for everyone else's products while Meta burned $80B. The open weights era is ending.

Business Insider asked 4 execs how they measure AI ROI. None mentioned token costs. That's like running a fleet and ignoring gas prices—corporate AI adoption is flying blind.

DeepSeek trained a GPT-4-class model for $5.6M on nerfed chips and open-sourced the whole thing. The AI hype machine just met its reality check.

xAI drops Grok Imagine 1.5 Preview with better photorealism and the same chaotic energy. The uncensored image gen arms race just got hotter.

Perplexity's CEO went on CNBC claiming ONE metric will decide the AI race. Cool story. Here's why that's peak hype-cycle nonsense from someone who should know better.

Alabama high schoolers are training for $40/hr Toyota jobs that AI can't touch while tech companies burn billions trying to replace copywriters. The skilled trades moat is real.

Elon Musk's Grok 3 just hit Microsoft Azure—the same cloud powering ChatGPT. The AI wars are now a weird group project where everyone hates each other but splits the bill.

Anthropic's Claude 3 dropped in March 2024 and started eating GPT-4's lunch on benchmarks. Here's why the AI cold war just got hot—and why you should care.

Scott Aaronson wants a coherent reason to stop AI scaling. The doomers can't give one. The accelerationists don't care. And the real reason—the money—nobody wants to admit.