AI Wars, Space Data Centers & the Forward-Deployed Engineer | AI Unplugged Ep. 16
In this episode of AI Unplugged, Travis, Andrew, Jeff, and John break down why the AI arms race has quietly shifted from who's smartest to who's cheapest and what that means for businesses trying to keep up.
The New AI Arms Race
- Fable, Soul, Grok 4.5, Muse Spark — a wave of major releases is hitting at once, and the competition is no longer about raw intelligence. It's about price.
- Travis's counterintuitive take: costs aren't actually going down — they're just going up more slowly. Sonnet proves it.
- A real eval result: dropping one reasoning tier cost 1-2% in performance but delivered a…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.