The Most Interesting Thing in A.I.
Hosted by Nicholas Thompson · Atlantic Re:think
4.6from 91 ratings
- 41
- Episodes
- 35
- Transcribed
- 91
- Ratings
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- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About The Most Interesting Thing in A.I.
A podcast series examining how AI is reshaping our world. Hosted by Nicholas Thompson, each episode features a conversation with a leading thinker who offers a fresh perspective on the far-reaching ethical, economic, and social implications of this technology. This podcast is from The Atlantic’s CEO and is produced independently of The Atlantic’s editorial staff. Some episodes have a supporting sponsor. Those episodes are clearly labeled and the sponsor is named.
- Publisher
- Atlantic Re:think
- Category
- technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 4 Dec 2024
- Latest episode
- 23 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
35 of 41 episodes have a transcript.
23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Case Against the AI Bubble - Azeem Azhar with Nicholas Thompson
16 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Future of Economic Power - Circle’s Jeremy Allaire with Nicholas Thompson
9 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Race to Superintelligence - Richard Socher with Nicholas Thompson
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The Case Against the AI Bubble - Azeem Azhar with Nicholas Thompson
Published 23 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So there are companies like Silicon Data that track the price to rent what's known as a GPU on the spot market. In other words, you sort of go out in the street and you say, right now, give me a price for an hour's GPU. It would be an amazing street. That pricing has held up reasonably well. But the really interesting thing is that other analysts have pointed out that spot pricing doesn't actually reflect what's going on in the market. What's going on in the market is that there is such a constraint on the availability of compute that that long-term contracts are often at a higher price than the spot price, which is the reverse of what you would think, right? […]
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