AI Startup Satire: Big lab acquihires are just an expensive Git merge
eigenron · x · 2026-08-24
A satirical tweet about the AI startup ecosystem describes the current loop: researchers leave big labs to pursue novel ideas at neolabs, and once those ideas succeed, they are acqui-hired back. The author likens this cycle to a very expensive Git branch merge.
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