a16z avoids neoclouds over debt risk; Bittensor pitched as the answer to CoreWeave's model
markjeffrey · x · 2026-10-18
On the latest All-In podcast, a16z explained why it avoids neoclouds: scaling compute on debt is a dangerous arbitrage business, echoing the dot-com bandwidth crash when prices fell from $1,500 to $50 per megabit. The bull case for CoreWeave rests on lasting GPU scarcity. 0xSunRun argues the neocloud model is still a levered bet that GPU scarcity outlasts the debt — and that Bittensor's token + network emissions bootstrap the supply side, doing the job debt does for CoreWeave without the leverage.
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