AI Got 80% Cheaper, SpaceX Lost $210B, and Google’s Chief Scientist Walked
When the core input of an industry gets this cheap, everything built on top of it starts to change. We are watching that play out.


A unique perspective from Dave Elkington on how systems are changing before org charts do, and understanding the transition from software tools to digital labor.
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When the core input of an industry gets this cheap, everything built on top of it starts to change. We are watching that play out.
Here is what gets me. The market is no longer asking whether these companies have good AI.
AI is collapsing the cost of execution, but it is not making everything cheaper.
Fund the compute, find the people who can make it work, and move fast enough to survive the mistakes.
The moves that mattered were quieter and more structural: companies deciding where value lives after AI makes the old product cheaper."
For two years the AI conversation has been about the models. This week it was about what companies do when AI changes what they're worth.

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For two years the AI boom has looked bulletproof. This week it showed where it can break.
The companies that understood what phase the market was entering are moving. The ones still defending what they built in the last cycle are spending billions to patch the gap.
Nobody announced a better model this week. The real moves were all about what surrounds them.
We are entering an era where hardware is private, software charges by output, distribution wins, and your GTM playbook just changed.
Wall Street and private markets are tracking hard unit economics, rewarding infrastructure ownership, and punishing companies that use technology purely as a defensive shield.
This week, five companies proved the conversation has moved. The fight is no longer about who builds the smartest AI. It is about who owns every layer of the stack intelligence runs on.