VC view: AI as precursor to robotics, lacking consumer moment
arian_ghashghai · x · 2026-08-18
The author shares a VC fund's thesis that AI might merely be a precursor technology for robotics, potentially never having a distinct consumer moment. Average people would interface with robots, glossing over the AI powering them, similar to how they ignore chips/CPUs/GPUs.
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