Tao argues AI has collapsed idea generation cost to near zero, making verification and evaluation the new bottleneck. Palantir builds platforms for large-scale data integration and analysis, the closest public proxy for verification infrastructure at scale.
Tao reveals that AI has a 1-2% success rate on hard math problems, but at scale it still solved 50 Erdos problems nobody else could crack. The lever is compute to run millions of attempts. NVIDIA's GPU monopoly directly benefits from this breadth-over-depth paradigm.