A 340 page huge report on AI trends - released by @bondcap Some...

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Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_ai
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A 340 page huge report on AI trends - released by @bondcap

Some wild findings from this report.

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Meta’s Llama Downloads Exploded 3.4× in Eight Months.

an unprecedented developer adoption curve for any open-source LLM.

bondcap. com/reports/tai
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AI Chatbots Now Mistaken as Human 73 Percent of the Time

In Q1 2025, testers mistook AI responses for human replies 73 percent of the time in Turing-style experiments. That’s up from roughly 50 percent only six months earlier—showing how quickly models have learned to mimic human conversational nuance
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Annual AI Inference Token Revenue Potential Jumped from $240K to $7 Billion in 8 Years

In 2016, a $1 billion-scale data center could handle about 5 trillion inference tokens per year (~$24 million token revenue).

By 2024, that same $1 billion facility could process ~1,375 trillion tokens (theoretical revenue ~$7 billion)—a 30,000× shift in earnings opportunity
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inference costs per million tokens plunging nearly 99.7% from late 2022 to early 2025.

In September 2022, GPT-3.5 cost over $10 per million tokens. By mid-2023, those fees dropped to around $1
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Cost declines of several technologies over time.

ChatGPT’s price for a 75-word response dropped nearly to zero within its first year.

Computer memory costs fell to almost zero in under two decades.

Electric power costs declined more gradually, reaching roughly 2–3% of their initial price after 60–70 years.

By contrast, the light bulb’s cost remained nearly flat over the same span
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IT consumer-price index (red line) from 1989–2024.

It shows compute requirements rising roughly 360% per year since around 2010—reaching 10ÂČ⁶ FLOP by 2024—while IT costs fell from an index of 100 to below 10.

In other words, training power has surged as hardware has become dramatically cheaper.
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Performance of Top AI Models on LMSYS Chatbot Arena – 1/24-2/25, per Stanford HAI
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Share of Developers Currently Using AI in Development Processes – 2023-2024,
per Stack Overflow
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Cumulative AI-related GitHub repositories from 2015 through March 2024.

Major milestones—TensorFlow (2015), the Transformers paper (2017), Hugging Face’s “hf/transformers” (2018), GPT-3 (2020), Stable Diffusion (2022), and ChatGPT launch (2022).

From late 2022 to early 2024, repo count jumped roughly 175%, driven by expanding categories like infrastructure, model development, model repos, AI engineering, and applications.
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Google Monthly Tokens Processed (T) – 5/24-5/25, per Google
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Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Quarterly Tokens Processed (T) – Q1:24-Q1:25, per Microsoft
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NVIDIA Quarterly Revenue by Business Line ($B) – 1/19-1/25, per NVIDIA
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Google TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) Estimated Sales – 2021-2024, per Morgan Stanley
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