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Start Here: The AI Afterhours Thesis
AI efficiency is a data movement problem, not a compute problem.
Mar 24 • Shwetank Kumar
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OpenAI vs Anthropic: The $121 Billion Question (Part 1 — The Financials)
Apr 15 • Shwetank Kumar
The Gigawatt Delusion: Why Silicon Valley's New Favorite Metric Is Making Us Dumber About AI
Nov 6, 2025 • Shwetank Kumar
The Terawatt Time Bomb: Transformers, Trouble, and the Analog In-Memory Compute Fix
Mar 18, 2025 • Shwetank Kumar
OpenAI vs Anthropic: The Comparison Just Moved (Part 2 — The Strategy)
In Part 1 we focused on the size of the financial gap. In Part 2 we discuss why it exists.
May 9 • Shwetank Kumar
OpenAI vs Anthropic: The $121 Billion Question (Part 1 — The Financials)
The WSJ leaked both companies' financials. Everyone compared revenue. That's the wrong number.
Apr 15 • Shwetank Kumar
Tokemaxxing: AI’s Biggest Waste Problem Isn’t Silicon — It’s Us
The AI revolution's most measurable output turns out to be more AI.
Apr 7 • Shwetank Kumar
The npm Ecosystem Is on Fire Right Now
Emergency off-cycle post from Vietnam, where I'm supposed to be on holiday.
Mar 31 • Shwetank Kumar
GTC 2026: When the King of FLOPS Pitched Efficiency
Jensen Huang spent two hours at GTC 2026 showing that AI efficiency is a data movement problem — not a compute problem
Mar 24 • Shwetank Kumar
Model Routing Is Now a Risk Management Problem
Three frontier models dropped in four days last month.
Mar 19 • Shwetank Kumar
The Accidental Robot Army and the Death of Security Economics
How a guy with a PlayStation controller broke the implicit bargain that the entire IoT industry depends on
Mar 5 • Shwetank Kumar
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