This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Contemporary off the massive GeekWire AI summit, we unpack what they heard from Microsoft EVP Charles Lamanna, OpenAI purposes CTO Vijaye Raji, and different audio system on the Brokers of Transformation occasion in Seattle, introduced by Accenture.
The large thread: the economics of AI, from token budgets changing into a hiring negotiation level to startups operating on sponsored credit that will not final.
Plus, a startup founder whose engineer burned by means of $5,000 in AI tokens over a single weekend of vibe coding, OpenAI shutting down Sora amid $15 million-a-day processing prices, and why panelist Liat Ben-Zur mentioned the efficiency indicators many corporations are utilizing for AI are “watermelon metrics” — inexperienced (revenue) on the surface, crimson (losses) on the within.
Additionally: how Todd used a Claude mission over a number of months to prep for the occasion, John’s expertise bouncing between Gemini and ChatGPT, and why the pure chat period could also be over.
And on this week’s trivia: Sound Transit’s gentle rail begins crossing Lake Washington on a floating bridge — however when did the unique I-90 floating bridge open?
Audio enhancing by Curt Milton.
