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🔮 Exponential View #553: The story of 100 trillion tokens; China’s chip win; superhuman persuasion, Waymo ethics, Polymarket & hydrology++

An insider’s view of AI and exponential technologies

Azeem Azhar and Nathan Warren
Dec 09, 2025
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This post originally appeared in Exponential View.

“Customers don’t buy benchmarks; they buy solutions. Once a model fits the problem, like a glass slipper, switching costs become irrelevant.”

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