Compute may matter more than we think at every layer of the AI stack
rakyll · x · 2026-07-23
The author says their personal bet is that compute matters more than people assume, and that this is true at every layer of the stack.
It is a concise view on AI infrastructure: the bottleneck is not just models, but the amount of compute available throughout the system.
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