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Nov 29, 2025 The podcast explores a significant shift in the AI industry from aggressive scaling to a focus on efficiency and reasoning. Ilya Sutskever declares the end of the scaling era, sparking discussions on new strategic priorities. OpenAI's ads leak on ChatGPT raises questions about user trust, while DeepSeekMath-V2 dazzles with its gold-level performance at the International Math Olympiad. The MIT report reveals that 11.7% of U.S. jobs are at risk from AI. Plus, intriguing insights on regulatory moves and the challenges posed by China's tech advancements.
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Hardware Monopoly Is Cracking
- NVIDIA's hardware monopoly is weakening as buyers gain leverage through alternatives like Google's TPUs.
- OpenAI used TPU viability to negotiate a ~30% discount, creating real price elasticity in the market.
Compute Arbitrage Evades Export Controls
- China circumvents export controls by leasing offshore data centers and training models outside restricted jurisdictions.
- Firms ship training data and retrieve completed models, keeping capability parity despite chip controls.
Reasoning Beats Raw Scale
- The industry is shifting from parameter-scale to reasoning and test-time compute efficiency.
- DeepSeekMath‑V2's generator‑verifier‑metaverifier shows inference-time verification outperforms brute-force pretraining.