Prediction: More Frontier Labs Will Self-Identify as Data Research Labs
ajratner · x · 2026-09-18
Vincent Chen predicts more AI labs will start self-identifying as "data research labs."
His argument: the Overton window has shifted — data was once seen as mere "plumbing," but it's now sayable, even at frontier labs, that the data is the research.
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