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BBT #13 Snippet | The AI Arms Race Is Costing Billions to Train
Training a frontier AI model costs hundreds of millions of dollars. The companies spending that money are not doing it as a public service. They are building systems designed to replace the most expensive line item on their balance sheet — labor. And the competition between them means there is no finish line. Every model that gets released immediately creates pressure to build the next one. The workforce displacement isn't a side effect of the AI arms race. It's the business model.
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00:00 — The impact of AI on the workforce, the competitive AI landscape, and the training cost…
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