Prime Intellect on why enterprises should own their intelligence, not rent it

willcb · x · 2026-10-01

Prime Intellect founder willcb joins Vals AI's The Bench podcast to argue that off-the-shelf frontier models aren't enough for enterprises. Topics include owning vs renting intelligence, capturing institutional knowledge, why frontier models fail at real work, token spend vs salary spend, OpenAI selling out of compute, whether RL is 'whack-a-mole' generality, sandbox importance, and multi-agent cooperative RL.

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