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Read this korrent: The best-performing AI model in a category earns outsized pricing power over models that are merely close to it.
The best-performing AI model in a category earns outsized pricing power over models that are merely close to it.
Last stated a week ago
14 Sept 2026
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Byrne Hobart — holds since 2026-09-14 — tap for who they are
Same subject: More AI models that deliver top-tier performance at lower cost are needed. — tap to centre the map on it
More AI models that deliver top-tier performance at lower cost are needed.
Last stated 2 weeks ago
10 Sept 2026
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Kent C. Dodds — holds since 2026-09-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Higher-priced AI subscription tiers mainly buy more hours of agent usage rather than a smarter underlying model — tap to centre the map on it
Higher-priced AI subscription tiers mainly buy more hours of agent usage rather than a smarter underlying model
Last stated 2 months ago
23 Jul 2026
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Ethan Mollick — holds since 2026-07-23 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI pricing is a big market delusion: each company’s implied revenues look plausible alone, but added together they exceed any market that could exist. — tap to centre the map on it
AI pricing is a big market delusion: each company’s implied revenues look plausible alone, but added together they exceed any market that could exist.
Last stated 10 months ago
3 Dec 2025
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Aswath Damodaran — holds since 2025-12-03 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Models are far more differentiated from one another than clouds are, so AI will not commoditise the way cloud did. — tap to centre the map on it
Models are far more differentiated from one another than clouds are, so AI will not commoditise the way cloud did.
Last stated 7 months ago
13 Feb 2026
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Dario Amodei — holds since 2026-02-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: An AI as good as a top researcher will not be priced like one, because it competes against the other labs rather than against humans. — tap to centre the map on it
An AI as good as a top researcher will not be priced like one, because it competes against the other labs rather than against humans.
Last stated a year ago
15 Aug 2025
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Casey Handmer — holds since 2025-08-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The dangerous concentration of power in AI comes from who can afford the compute, not from who holds the model weights. — tap to centre the map on it
The dangerous concentration of power in AI comes from who can afford the compute, not from who holds the model weights.
Last stated 2 years ago
19 Jun 2024
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Aravind Srinivas — holds since 2024-06-19 — tap for who they are
Same subject: People disagreeing about AI capability are speaking past each other, because they are using models of very different tiers on very different kinds of task. — tap to centre the map on it
People disagreeing about AI capability are speaking past each other, because they are using models of very different tiers on very different kinds of task.
Last stated 5 months ago
9 Apr 2026
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Andrej Karpathy — holds since 2026-04-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The quality of the context given to an AI matters more than the model's inherent capability. — tap to centre the map on it
The quality of the context given to an AI matters more than the model's inherent capability.
Last stated 2 months ago
9 Jul 2026
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Tiago Forte — holds since 2026-07-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A collection of AI agents does not automatically form a functioning organization any more than a group of smart people does. — tap to centre the map on it
A collection of AI agents does not automatically form a functioning organization any more than a group of smart people does.
Last stated 4 months ago
21 May 2026
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Rohit Krishnan — holds since 2026-05-21 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A computer-using agent needs a machine of its own, or you will spend the day fighting it for the mouse cursor. — tap to centre the map on it
A computer-using agent needs a machine of its own, or you will spend the day fighting it for the mouse cursor.
Last stated a month ago
10 Aug 2026
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Peter Steinberger — holds since 2026-08-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A future where agents run and improve an organisation is impossible unless humans can first see and understand the system themselves. — tap to centre the map on it
A future where agents run and improve an organisation is impossible unless humans can first see and understand the system themselves.
Last stated 6 months ago
22 Mar 2026
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Nicole Forsgren — holds since 2026-03-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A true artificial general intelligence cannot exist without being recognized as a moral subject. — tap to centre the map on it
A true artificial general intelligence cannot exist without being recognized as a moral subject.
Last stated a year ago
10 Jun 2025
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Samuel Hammond — holds since 2025-06-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A unit of AI inference needs to be defined, for example via a chain of increasingly hard problems where each consecutive pair is solvable by one model. — tap to centre the map on it
A unit of AI inference needs to be defined, for example via a chain of increasingly hard problems where each consecutive pair is solvable by one model.
Last stated 6 days ago
15 Sept 2026
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Paul Graham — holds since 2026-09-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Both the special-purpose-programs view and the blank-slate view of human intelligence are likely incorrect. — tap to centre the map on it
Both the special-purpose-programs view and the blank-slate view of human intelligence are likely incorrect.
Last stated 7 years ago
5 Nov 2019
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François Chollet — holds since 2019-11-05 — tap for who they are
Same subject: "Scaling" was powerful because it was one word: naming a research direction is what tells a whole field what to do next. — tap to centre the map on it
"Scaling" was powerful because it was one word: naming a research direction is what tells a whole field what to do next.
Last stated 10 months ago
25 Nov 2025
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Ilya Sutskever — holds since 2025-11-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A benchmark result should be reported under a stated budget, or as a curve against test-time compute — never as a single number. — tap to centre the map on it
A benchmark result should be reported under a stated budget, or as a curve against test-time compute — never as a single number.
Last stated 3 months ago
26 Jun 2026
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Noam Brown — holds since 2026-06-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A lab should spend most of its compute on research rather than on building the next model, because research is where the tenfold yearly efficiency gains come from. — tap to centre the map on it
A lab should spend most of its compute on research rather than on building the next model, because research is where the tenfold yearly efficiency gains come from.
Last stated 6 months ago
13 Mar 2026
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Dylan Patel — holds since 2026-03-13 — tap for who they are
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