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AI: An Intelligent Con

AI is an even bigger bubble than the early-2000s internet frenzy, diverting massive capital from far more vital sectors that are crying out for investment.

Pascal Clérotte

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Translation to English of our piece “Intelligente Anarque” published on 31, January 2026.

Well, well. Very impressive, dear Elon Musk. Care to tell us exactly how much extra this latest “performance boost” to Grok Imagine is costing compared to the previous version—for an application whose practical utility barely exceeds that of the flamethrower you marketed back in 2018?

The honest answer is simple: real-time AI video generation is still far too expensive for the mass market. Credit where it’s due—Elon Musk at least has the decency to admit it.

OpenAI boasts that ChatGPT-5 is 25% more capable than ChatGPT-4. What they conveniently omit is that running ChatGPT-5 costs roughly four times more than its predecessor. To deliver that modest 25% gain, OpenAI had to triple its total computing power in 2025. In plain English: a 25% performance improvement triggers costs several times higher than the entire previous version.

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