Pareto Frontier
topic on 3 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes
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Acharya: Multi-model competition prevents AI labs from capturing application margins
“I think if we lived in a world of twenty-twenty-three when it was one model to rule them all, it wouldn't even matter if you had permission, because the labs would just take a hundred percent of your gross margin over time. But now, because you've got many opt…”
Kilpatrick: Pushing the AI Pareto Frontier Uniquely Increases Builder Margins
“And like the margin for people building AI products actually goes up every, like the farther you push the Pareto frontier, the more money builders get to make, which is like such a interesting and like unique thing about this AI moment that I actually don't th…”
Wang: Google owns the entire AI lab Pareto frontier with Gemini 2.5 Pro
“They now completely own the entire Pareto frontier of all, all, all labs. Like they've had the smartest and the cheapest and the most effective Pareto frontier between.”
Swyx: The Cost-Performance Pareto Frontier Slope Reflects Distillation SOTA
“The slope of the Pareto Frontier is basically the state of the art of distillation, and the gentler the slope, the better distillation is.”
Drew Houston: Large language models are a rapidly self-commoditizing, bad business
“Large language models are a pretty bad
Business from a, you know, you sort of take off your tech lens and just sort of business lens. Like there's sort of this weirdly self-commoditizing thing where, you know, models only have value if they're kind of on this…”