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Monday, 1 June 2026

Import AI 459: AI oversight is difficult; scaling laws for protein folding models; and pricing the extinction risk of AI systems

Import AI 1 month ago

Economists estimate the US AI economy grew at 2,600 percent per year in quality-adjusted terms in 2025, but this growth remains largely invisible in conventional GDP statistics because falling per-unit prices mask the underlying expansion. US AI compute spending rose from $37 billion in 2023 to $219 billion in 2025, while quality-adjusted output grew at roughly 2,290 percent in 2024. Policymakers relying on traditional economic data may be unprepared for labor-market disruptions and may need to implement tax reforms or sovereign wealth funds to manage potential wage-base shocks.

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Open and closed models are on different exponentials

Interconnects 1 month ago

Closed AI models like Claude and GPT are achieving premium pricing through coding agents that demonstrate substantially higher output than open alternatives, establishing separate economic trajectories for closed and open model ecosystems. Users performing complex knowledge work are willing to pay $2,000 per month or more for frontier closed models, while open models will capture broader value through commodity pricing across diverse enterprise deployments over 5-10 years. Closed labs will consolidate into an oligopoly resembling cloud markets today, while open model builders will proliferate across a wider stack, ultimately capturing greater total market value but with lower per-unit margins.

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