Shkreli says intelligence demand is limitless: McDonald's could rationally spend $10B on GPUs
firstadopter · x · 2026-10-13
Martin Shkreli argued in an interview that demand for intelligence has no ceiling — even McDonald's could rationally spend $10 billion on GPUs to pick its next sandwich — and predicted OpenAI and Anthropic will spin out businesses until each contains an entire S&P 500. He also name-dropped a friend's under-the-radar startup, Core Automation, founded by an ex-OpenAI researcher he credits with inventing the reasoning model. The poster criticizes platforms for repeatedly amplifying the convicted fraudster best known for gouging drug prices.
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