THINK TANK KG
VOL. I · 2026
EP 303 · released 18 Oct 2026 · 1 of 1 films

Three-Dollar Physicist

Robot brains got more than twice as good for about a third of the price in eight weeks, and an AI agent solved 49 of 50 brand-new physics problems at under three dollars each. A hundred and eight seconds on what that opens for anyone who knows how real work goes, with the founder at the front and back, every statement stamped, and three episodes of Moonshots news in the ticker.

The Knowledge Gardens × Moonshots Podcast · #AikidoTheAI · Series entry in the archive

A robot brain costs 66 cents a try now.

Film 1 of 1 · 1:47 · EP 303

Three-Dollar Physicist

Robot brains got more than twice as good for about a third of the price in eight weeks, and an AI agent solved 49 of 50 brand-new physics problems at under three dollars each. A hundred and eight seconds on what that opens for anyone who knows how real work goes, with the founder at the front and back, every statement stamped, and three episodes of Moonshots news in the ticker.

In this film
  1. The founder's open
  2. Robot brains: 15 percent at $1.77 a try
  3. September: 36 percent for 66 cents
  4. What the know-how is worth now
  5. Fifty new physics problems
  6. The correction: 49, not fifty
  7. 110,000 people waiting for an organ
  8. The garden's view
  9. The founder's close

Sources for every figure are published with the films: each receipt above opens its card on The Wire. Where a number is self-reported by the lab that produced it, the film says so on screen, and so does the card.