Stardock CEO: local AI will dominate most AI work in 18 months, datacenters pointless
draginol · x · 2026-10-20
Stardock CEO Brad Wardell (draginol) says that while his stock portfolio wants OpenAI and Anthropic to succeed since everyone is betting on them, the data tells him most AI work will run as local AI within 18 months.
His contrarian conclusion: the massive datacenter buildouts currently underway are pointless — a prediction that runs directly against the prevailing compute-scaling narrative, offered as a claim rather than a detailed argument.
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