When I talk to people I know about AI, I notice that most of them are unaware of both the scale of its development and the magnitude of its implications. Let alone the speed at which progress is unfolding.

Right now, we’re still in a slow adoption phase. Across most sectors of the economy, AI hasn’t truly arrived yet. At the same time, development continues to accelerate rapidly: data center CapEx, model capabilities, robotics, and so much more. Everything is advancing at once, and everything is moving faster.

To quote Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: the current AI-driven technological revolution is comparable to the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century, except it is ten times more powerful and unfolding at ten times the speed.

With that in mind, I don’t see Elon Musk’s claim that everything will become free as absurd. Instead, I see it as a very realistic future possibility. Not just a golden age of science, but a golden age of abundance.