AI Is Now a Commodity

Aug 6, 2026 · 1:22 PM UTC ·1 min read · 0 reactions · 0 comments · 2 views

Give me a few hundred million dollars and a year and a half, and I will build you a pretty good LLM. Not a frontier model, but close. A few years ago that sentence would have been absurd.

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Original publisher	Vincent Schmalbach
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Publication time	Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:22:33 +0000
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Aug 5, 2026 EconomicsLLM TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, With Ads Built In TIME is now serving two different versions of its website. Humans get the magazine. AI crawlers get a stripped down markdown copy… Read post

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