Opinion: Frontier AI is the best lever for capital, but doesn't make capital less important
menhguin · x · 2026-08-03
Author menhguin replies that with $100k you can wire it to any major LLM provider and get progress on complex knowledge work today, making your company more money without contracts or salaries—unprecedented. He argues frontier AI is one of the best levers for capital-to-capital in history, but that doesn't make capital less important.
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