Apoorv's notes · 23 August 2026 · Operating Insight

What I Learned Teaching the Economics of AI at Stanford

Apoorv Agrawal, Partner @ Altimeter

A Stanford economics professor synthesizes insights from a nine-week AI supercycle course with industry leaders, distilling key theses on NVIDIA's dominance, power infrastructure bottlenecks, and the coexistence of open and closed AI models through distillation economics.

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Topics: AI (Horizontal) · AI Infrastructure · Semiconductors

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