Cal Newport

And they're trying to race to an IPO and they're marketing out of their butts.

Like, what can we do to kind of keep things going?

So at least we can get our stock on the market.

That's what would keep me up at night if I was them is...

actually the future, there might be a lot of AI in the future and it's not going to be nearly as sexy as they're hoping.

Yeah.

what kind of informs the bias and makes us look less dumb i think the more excited we are i think the frontier models are like f1 cars and the equivalent of points on the f1 circuit are your positioning on the benchmark leaderboards like so you do this you build these giant models uh and you spend all this money electricity and they're so big they're not even economically viable to like have people use which might really be what's going on with mythos is like

We have to make this seem super premium because otherwise people are going to get charged $5,000 a month.

And just like if you're Red Bull or Ferrari, your F1 car doing well on this leaderboard just lets people know this company builds good cars and then you can sell your normal cars.

I think that's a lot of what's going on here is that they want to be high on that leaderboard means we know how to do AI.

We AI smart, even though the future of actual consumer deployed products is going to be much more like a Honda Odyssey minivan than it's going to be like a top Formula One car.

You can find me at calnewport.com.

My podcast is Deep Questions.

On Thursdays, the Thursday episodes are all AI reality checks where I take a fun story.

Actually, Ed's coming up.

He may have already been on it by the time this comes out, or maybe it's the day after this comes out.

So now you have to check it out.

The AI reality check episode is going to double dose.

You bring this out of me, Ed, by the way.

You bring out my sort of ornery side.