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The speaker identifies rising compute prices as the remaining way to reconcile faster lab revenue growth with slower compute growth if lab margins do not absorb the difference.
Dwarkesh Patel · Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x · 3 Aug 2026
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“So that leaves only one other possibility of this escape valve between these two trends, which is that the price of compute has to increase.”3:09Report a misattribution
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