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Big labs will feel the AGI vs product tradeoff more and more as the models get better and costs keep rising.

There’s a constant balancing act between short-term and long-term research, marginal product improvements and ambitious jumps, and so on.

And the cost of mistakes only rises as time goes on.

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A brief observation that large AI labs will increasingly face a tension between pursuing AGI research and building profitable products as models improve and costs rise.