Ep 833: RSI Explained: When AI Starts Improving Itself and What It Means

SPEAKER_00: As Agentic AI became more powerful and token hungry in the first months of 2026, the AI decision makers a month or so ago started to collectively tighten their token maxing belts to prepare for a more expensive AI future. It's the shift from token maxing to token efficiency we've been talking about here for months.

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1. 01SPEAKER_00: As Agentic AI became more powerful and token hungry in the first months of 2026, the AI decision makers a month or so ago started to collectively tighten their token ma
2. 02OpenAI on Thursday revealed that its GPT-5.6 soul model improved itself and actually improved itself so much after its initial release that they were cutting prices on some of the
3. 03Today's Frontier models are not just helping to create or distill their smaller variants, but they're actually improving themselves after release