The AI Wealth Gap: Why 40x Deflation Changes Everything w/ Dave Blundin, Salim Ismail & AWG | EP#208
The hosts analyze the rapid acceleration of AI capabilities, highlighting a 40x year-over-year hyperdeflation in the cost of intelligence and the rise of low-cost open-source models like Moonshot AI's Kimi.summaryThere is a fundamental interplay between AI alignment and capabilities: labs that start as alignment-focused (like OpenAI and Anthropic) inevitably pivot to capabilities because being able to align models with human intetakeaway“What becomes ultimately a frontier lab starts as an alignment lab... if you can align a model really well with human intent that immediately itself is a strong capability. I think every alignment project almost inevitabquote














