Burning Platforms

Burning Platforms

Hosted by Peter Lewis and Dan Stinton and Lizzie O’Shea · Per Capita Australia

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114
Episodes
66
Transcribed
5
Ratings
Daily
Cadence
2021
First episode

About Burning Platforms

Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. Join Peter Lewis, Lizzie O’Shea (Digital Rights Watch), Dan Stinton (HealthEngine CEO), and guests, fortnightly for analysis of the politics of technology from some of Australia’s leading digital campaigners and industry experts. Brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square - an initiative of Per Capita.

Publisher
Per Capita Australia
Category
news · science · technology
Language
en
Explicit
No
First episode
5 Oct 2021
Latest episode
6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

66 of 114 episodes have a transcript.

  1. 6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Open Season with Simon Kriss

  2. 30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Rearview Mirror with Matt Finch

  3. 22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Tame Your Feed with Agata Stepnik

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Open Season with Simon Kriss

Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] What is the cost as well? Obviously, the cost differential. For a commercial model, you're paying for every million tokens you consume. With an open weight model, you're just paying for the computer that it runs on. So if you happen to have three Mac Studios sitting on your desk, you will probably run that model for free, depending on its size. If you go to a really small model, heck, you can run it on a laptop. There's a company here in Australia called Base Compute that are figuring out how larger companies can use all of the GPUs in everybody's laptops to when they're not being utilized to run AI in the background. […]

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  • Simon Kriss
  • Matt Finch
  • Cam Wilson
  • Agata Stepnik
  • Sarah Davies

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Who hosts Burning Platforms?

Peter Lewis and Dan Stinton and Lizzie O’Shea host the show. Published by Per Capita Australia.

How often do new episodes come out?

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Does Burning Platforms take guests?

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