Investors: buy AI rollup targets and turn them into RL environments for OpenAI
curious_vii · x · 2026-09-24
curiousvii says Thrive ranks #1 on their evidence ranking, citing @lefttailguy's take that such companies risk becoming a "vassal state" for OpenAI researchers — buy the companies and turn them into RL environments.
Thrive is framed as both the best-positioned player in the AI rollup wave and the cautionary case, illustrating how capital is now binding acquisitions to frontier lab research needs.
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