How to start an AI lab in 2026: raise $2B, poach teams, warn it might kill everyone
gouterz · reddit · 2026-09-17
A viral Reddit post satirizes the standard 2026 playbook for starting an AI lab: raise a $2B seed, poach the other lab's team, spend $300M training a model, pay creators for hype, warn it might kill everyone, and repeat until IPO — mocking current AI startup marketing and doom rhetoric.
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