Mainly AI
Welcome to Mainly AI — the show where artificial intelligence meets real-world impact. Join your hosts Dan Mitchell and Viby Jacob as they explore the latest breakthroughs in AI and other emerging technologies, and how they’re changing business, science, and your everyday life.
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Mainly AI Episode 3: Models Are Just Math - The Economics of AI at Scale (opens the original)
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MIT’s Manya Ghobadi on AI Economics: Why Token Pricing Misses the Point Host Dan Mitchell interviews Manya Ghobadi, MIT CSAIL associate professor and founder/CEO of Systalyze, about making AI practical, efficient, and economically viable at scale. Ghobadi explains that AI “models are just math,” with prompt cost driven by model architecture and matrix multiplications, and offers a simple view of LLMs as next-token probability predictors. She argues efficiency should be a first-principles focus,
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