Satirical list of AI startup tropes: GitHub clones, slightly worse models, 8-year chip cycles
wordgrammer · x · 2026-08-19
A satirical post listing trendy AI startup directions with a cynical tone: building GitHub alternatives, creating training harnesses, making open source models "slightly worse than Chinese ones," doing RL for business, selling data, teleoperating humanoid robots, making chips with 8-year launch cycles, and rebranding VMs as "sandboxes".
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