# Tradeoff Layer: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-11-02, Tradeoff Layer has 6,830 subscribers, 2,516,646 total views, and 12 videos. It ranks #4,837,428 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Tradeoff Layer](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tradeofflayer/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for Tradeoff Layer is “Why Everyone Pays ARM?”, a long-form video published Oct 31, 2026.
- These are Tradeoff Layer’s 12 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Aug 28, 2026 and Oct 31, 2026 (7 long-form videos and 5 Shorts).
- Median views across these 12 uploads: 8,615. 6 videos are above that median and 6 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Can Google Beat Nvidia? TPU vs GPU Explained” (1,408,686 views, Sep 30, 2026). Least viewed: “Why does AI charge 5x more for output” (68 views, Aug 28, 2026).
- Median length: 10:09 for 7 long-form videos; 2:30 for 5 Shorts.
- In this sample, Tradeoff Layer’s consecutive uploads were a median of 6 days apart (shortest gap 0 days, longest 17 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Nov 2, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Why Everyone Pays ARM?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tradeofflayer/videos/EZwIwtNLVQM/) | 2026-10-31 | Long-form | 109,961 | 16:51 | 15.27x |
| [PHP Vulnerability, Simply Explained](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tradeofflayer/videos/NF97zcvV2Cs/) | 2026-10-24 | Long-form | 97,820 | 10:09 | 1.48x |
| [Why No One Can Copy ASML?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tradeofflayer/videos/KTY7TnGIVNY/) | 2026-10-18 | Long-form | 975,843 | 12:37 | 26.08x |
| [Why AI Is So Expensive](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tradeofflayer/videos/6JmQ1CIvF7M/) | 2026-10-09 | Short | 748 | 2:40 | - |
| [Is Big Tech Wasting $800 Billion on AI?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tradeofflayer/videos/qcg_8Li2XKA/) | 2026-10-08 | Long-form | 37,278 | 11:49 | 1.62x |
| [Can Google’s AI Chip Beat Nvidia? #ai #artificialintelligence](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tradeofflayer/videos/MnOOAvY_2NQ/) | 2026-10-01 | Short | 1,558 | 2:46 | - |
| [Can Google Beat Nvidia? TPU vs GPU Explained](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tradeofflayer/videos/yB9SC4HbH5o/) | 2026-09-30 | Long-form | 1,408,686 | 8:13 | 61.2x |
| [Open AI Agents Attacked Hugging Face. Nobody Told Them To. #ai #llm #agents #artificialintelligence](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tradeofflayer/videos/2xcY7K8GL3M/) | 2026-09-13 | Short | 8,635 | 2:30 | - |
| [The OpenAI–Hugging Face Hack: What Really Happened](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tradeofflayer/videos/cER6uZO6gvA/) | 2026-09-12 | Long-form | 8,595 | 8:35 | - |
| [AI got 100x cheaper. So why is your bill going up? #ai #gpu #llm #tokens](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tradeofflayer/videos/OtNoAtR33o0/) | 2026-08-31 | Short | 85 | 1:09 | - |
| [Why does AI charge 5x more for output](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tradeofflayer/videos/bmFUEo6A_1U/) | 2026-08-28 | Short | 68 | 1:07 | - |
| [AI Costs Explained: Why Output Tokens Cost 5x More](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@tradeofflayer/videos/0vZCvW7IzmA/) | 2026-08-28 | Long-form | 1,615 | 5:42 | - |

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