"SF is about raising money for compute as hard as you can until you die"
zealcaiden · x · 2026-10-07
A widely shared quip capturing the current AI startup zeitgeist: in San Francisco, the whole game is raising money for compute as aggressively as possible, for as long as you can survive. A one-line summary of the compute arms race culture dominating AI startups.
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