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The Economics of AI: Why It Costs So Much (and Keeps Getting Cheaper)
A plain-English guide to the money behind AI — why everything runs on GPUs, what it really costs to train a frontier model, why you pay per token, the data centres and power behind every reply, why prices keep collapsing anyway, and who actually makes money. No hype.
7 lessons·≈ 1 hr read·Free, no account
- 01Why AI Is So Expensive: GPUs, Training Costs & Inference EconomicsBeginner·10 min
- 02Why AI Runs on GPUs (and Why One Chip Costs as Much as a Car)Beginner·9 min
- 03What It Costs to Train a Frontier AI ModelBeginner·9 min
- 04Why You Pay Per Token: The Economics of AI InferenceBeginner·10 min
- 05Data Centres & Power: The Physical Side of AIBeginner·9 min
- 06Why AI Keeps Getting Cheaper (While Everything About It Gets Bigger)Beginner·10 min
- 07Who Actually Makes Money in AI? The Value Stack, ExplainedBeginner·10 min