Funniest AI race ending: trillion-dollar labs spend hundreds of billions, then someone matches it on a $500 laptop
VraserX · x · 2026-10-18
The author muses that the funniest possible outcome of the AI race would be trillion-dollar companies spending hundreds of billions on superhuman intelligence, only for someone to run a nearly-as-capable model on a $500 laptop a few years later.
"Honestly, I hope that's exactly what happens." A wry nod to the tension between compute arms races and the open-source/efficiency playbook that models like DeepSeek have already hinted at.
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