Gary Marcus mocks Sam Altman's AI bubble warning: bubble architect calls it a bubble
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-03
Sam Altman warned of "the first signs of unsustainable silliness" in the industry, saying firms are building "crazy amounts of compute" without revenue or buyers to support it, and that a broader economic blowup would hit OpenAI too. Gary Marcus resurfaced the remarks with a pointed jab: the person largely responsible for the AI bubble is now the one calling it a bubble.
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