EP03 | Grok Bot Is Too Expensive. Even for Elon.

Grok Bot's allowance is running out days early, and Elon says it costs too much to serve. Oracle is financing its data centers at store-card rates. Marvell is paying $115 billion for the links between AI chips. And a bank cut its coding-agent bill by 90%. This is The Cost of Intelligence, the per-dollar news show from Strong Compute. I'm Ben Sand. Here comes the bill. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:21 Today's headlines 1:05 Here comes the bill 1:31 The landlord has entered the chat 3:01 The news: Marvell buys Lumentum 3:59 Who's paying for the concrete? 4:54 Our last story: Grok Bot's meter 6:07 The tier list 7:23 Department of Token Efficiency 8:31 The fine print 8:49 A word from ourselves Show notes and all sources for this episode are on Substack: https://words.strongcompute.com/p/the-cost-of-intelligence-episode-3 Listen to this episode on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/24YCPKL9eHja97A7UriI9d 🔔 Subscribe for AI costs updates and FinOps Strong Compute plugs into the compute clouds and model providers you already use, from AWS and Lambda to OpenAI and Anthropic. Bring your own keys and see exactly where the GPU hours and tokens go. Because somebody has to read the invoice. https://strongcompute.com/