𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐩𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐰𝐢𝐜𝐞. 𝐎𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐬. 😳
Satya Nadella calls it the Reverse Information Paradox. The invoice covers the first payment. The second is handed over a question at a time, and nobody sends a receipt for that one.
This week on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧:
𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬. 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐀𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬. 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐭.
Which is a striking thing to hear from the company selling the intelligence, and a fair prompt to count how many of your own questions have carried a customer list, a price or a contract.
Inside the episode:
🔴 Open models carrying 78.4% of the tokens through one developer gateway, against 21.6% closed, and why dollars could tell a different story
🔴 A claim of ten times lower cost at state of the art quality, which is one vendor's claim about its own model
🔴 A free tier quietly limited to the lightest model while the price of the paid plan held still
🔴 TikTok adding one click checkout from the feed, on about $15.8 billion of US sales in 2025
🔴 The move: five things your business knows that competitors would pay to learn
The sticker price is one half of what AI costs you. 🎙️
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