Weighty Thoughts
James WangVC on AI, deep tech, startups. Former Bridgewater, Google[x], startup founder. Read by top engineers, fund managers, and policymakers.
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AI's Plummeting Prices Are a Software Story, Not a Hardware One
Why is model inference getting cheaper? How did I drop a soon-to-be $2,000+/month bill for AI agents to next to nothing? And why are local models on commodity hardware potentially “good enough” for most people?
There are two macro trends h...
World Models Can Change Everything
What happens if world models work? In a way, all of our assumptions break.
Everything that LLMs can do because they have the digital footprints of literally billions of people from the internet… we could have in the real world too. We cou...
AI Dementia—Why Your Agent Gets Progressively Dumber As You Talk To It
In the Halo series, one of the plot points is that the AI eventually becomes “rampant.” (Yes, I mean the shooter game—believe it or not, it not only has a plot, it has a pretty good one if you include the books.)
Humanity’s AI in the game,...
Is AI in Writing a Problem?
, a columnist at The Washington Post, shared her AI workflow on X.
Basically, it’s a research assistant and copyeditor. While she doesn’t have a human research assistant, her job at The Washington Post obviously provides a human editor and...
US Jobs Numbers Aren't as Bad as They Look
It’s a little dated now, but the February jobs report landed like a grenade. Payrolls fell by 92,000—the third decline in five months—and the December number got revised down to negative 17,000. Headlines did what headlines do. “Economy She...
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