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Analog Chips Target Real AI Compute Costs Beyond Leaderboard Gaming

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Everyone's freaking out about AI costs. Some of it is real. A lot of it is just "token maxing," companies gamifying usage on leaderboards.

Naveen Rao (@NaveenGRao) is attacking the real problem at @unconvAI, building brain-inspired analog chips to crash the cost of intelligence per dollar. He joins @alex to argue that a big slice of today's AI spend is theater, why "developers are disappearing" is wrong, and how energy will remain the bottleneck for compute.

This Week in AI Episode 16 is out today. @Jason

12:40 PM · Jun 4, 2026 · 6.3K Views
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"Just because you're using a ton of AI doesn't mean you're producing good things." - @AlexFinn

Anthropic filed to go public. The layoff wave keeps rolling. Data centers are getting protested in middle America. And a single GPU now burns more power than ever, with energy about to become AI's hard ceiling.

This week, we covered these topics and more with: - Naveen Rao (@NaveenGRao), building brain-inspired analog chips to crash the cost of compute at @unconvAI. - Alex Finn (@AlexFinn), building an AI agent for everyone at Henry Intelligent Machines (@HenryForAll).

7 moments worth your time: 0:00 Welcome back to This Week in AI 1:23 The AI cost panic: real, or just token maxing? 8:19 Surgeons vs. shotguns: how to actually use AI 17:16 How energy overtook chips as the cost of compute 20:13 The energy wall nobody is pricing in 24:31 AI's PR problem & the data center backlash 29:17 Data center taxes & the politics of AI upside 36:33 The Anthropic IPO & if the guests would buy

They join @alex on This Week in AI Episode 16, out now. @Jason

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