The eternal complement
An OpenAI-hosted essay argues AI should complement scarce execution capacity, not just multiply genius.
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The ugly economics of consumer AI
Few consumers pay for AI despite model gains, pushing major labs toward enterprise revenue.
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AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom
Bain says AI must earn about $6 trillion a year by 2031 to justify data-center spending.
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Evidence-Grounded Auditing of Identification Assumptions in Climate-Policy Causal Evaluations
ARGUS, a language-model pipeline, audits identification assumptions in climate-policy difference-in-differences studies and abstains when evidence is missing.
Tokens Too Cheap to Meter
Analysis argues LLM inference cost per task is falling by orders of magnitude yearly through GPU, model, and inference-engine efficiency gains.
Pilot Early, Commit Late: A Real-Options Model of Enterprise AI Adoption under Rapid Technological Progress
Real-options model shows firms should pilot AI early and commit late because rapid frontier progress raises experimentation value over irreversible deployment.
The full stack behind abundant intelligence
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar describes how compounding gains across chips, compute, models, and products cut intelligence costs.