Commentary suggests Musk aims to dominate AGI by controlling compute supply
jjvincent · x · 2026-08-25
A commentary suggested that Musk is pursuing an AGI strategy akin to the Heartland Theory: whoever controls the fab controls the compute; whoever controls the compute controls the frontier model; and whoever controls the frontier model controls the world.
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