Episode
Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x
Dwarkesh Podcast · Aug 3, 2026 · 11 min
This is a video recording of a post I wrote last week. If you want to read the original you can check it out here . Thanks to Mercury for sponsoring this video. Mercury’s built-in AI, Command, helps me close my books and saves me a bunch of time. At the end of each month, Command categorizes my transactions and provides its rationale for every choice: I just review, fix anything that’s off, and…