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June 4, 2026
State of the AI Industry
A living analysis of the AI industry across six layers — from silicon to business domains — written from the vantage point of a Data Scientist who helps organizations make better decisions.
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June 4, 2026
The Economics of LLMs: Training, Inference, and Who Pays
Training a frontier model costs nine figures. Serving it costs fractions of a cent per token. The gap between those two numbers defines who can compete in AI — and who gets left out.
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