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Instead of the gold standard, we can imagine an inference standard of exchange, the FLOP. (As opposed to tokens, this accounts for AI abilit…
Instead of the gold standard, we can imagine an inference standard of exchange, the FLOP. (As opposed to tokens, this accounts for AI ability) With some AI help, I figure 1 buys roughly 10^17 managed-
Instead of the gold standard, we can imagine an inference standard of exchange, the FLOP. (As opposed to tokens, this accounts for AI ability) With some AI help, I figure 1 buys roughly 10^17 managed-LLM inference FLOPs. So that 4 coffee would cost half an exaFLOP, choom.
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Source: Ethan Mollick (X) | 2026-04-15