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Since the early internet, the quantity of data transferred has increased by many orders of magnitude, while the price per byte of network transfer has fallen by many orders of magnitude.
Jamin Ball · Deep Dive: Anthropic S-1 Myths and Mythos — Jamin Ball, Altimeter · 7 Nov 2026
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“And it's just as things get-- You know, you go back to, like, the early days of the internet. Like how many bytes were traveling across the internet in 2000? How many bytes are traveling across the internet today?”
“Like many, many, many, many orders of magnitude more. And guess what? The price to transfer bytes over the network has, like, dropped by, like, many-- Not, I mean, many orders of magnitude.”
“Price has gone way down-”
“... quantity has gone way up.”41:10Report a misattribution
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