DeepMind Chief Strategist: AI Infrastructure Spending Is a Bet on Recursive Self-Improvement
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-13
Google DeepMind Chief Strategy Officer Jasjeet Sekhon says today's massive AI infrastructure spending is financing a hoped-for self-improvement loop — recursive self-improvement driving hyperexponential capability growth. The remark, from a Berkeley RDI interview, echoes Dario Amodei's recent 3800-word essay, showing recursive self-improvement is becoming the core investment thesis behind current AI capex.
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