The Circular AI Economy: Why OpenAI's Investor Chain May Be Too Big to Fail
CartoonistVisual2818 · reddit · 2026-10-12
A Reddit breakdown of the 'cyclical economy' among OpenAI's five major backers: they bleed money yet keep funding each other and building better LLMs in a chained loop. The argument: this chain is leverage over the US economy — if one link breaks, a bubble-popping correction follows, but precisely because everyone would suffer, politicians, investors and partners have every incentive to never back out of the race, regardless of who is in charge.
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