Friedberg predicts AI compute will collapse movie production costs to under $10,000
David Friedberg · E115: The AI Search Wars: Google vs. Microsoft, Nordstream report, State of the Union · Feb 11, 2023 · at 1:17:16
David Friedberg is an investor and co-host of All-In. He discusses how decreasing AI compute costs will democratize media production across film, music, and games.
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“This takes it to a whole nother level where the monopoly That big production houses have because they have the big budget so they can afford to make a big movie. If that cost of making a ten million dollar movie goes to 10,000 or a thousand dollars of compute time, anyone sitting in their studio in a basement can start to make a movie. And it really changes the landscape for all media, not just movies, music, video games, and ultimately the consumers themselves can create stuff for their own enjoyment and maybe the best of those products win”
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