Naval: Yesterday's AI ate the internet; today's AI feasts on the Mozarts and Einsteins
naval · x · 2026-09-10
Investor Naval offered an aphoristic take on how AI training has shifted.
- Then: Yesterday's AIs ate the whole internet and became a "patchwork mediocrity."
- Now: Today's AI "hunts and feasts upon the Mozarts, Einsteins, and Shakespeares of our age" — the very best human output.
- The vision: this births "a gang of ghostly geniuses" that will write our code, drive our cars, and run our world.
A condensed articulation of the shift from scraping the long tail of the web to training on frontier-quality data.
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