RL environments, compute, inference, post-training: AI infra companies do everything

willcb · x · 2026-10-20

A viral thread mocks how AI infrastructure companies blur business lines: they're an RL environment company, sell compute, run inference on all major open models plus their own, and do post-training too. Asked how they actually make money, the answer stalls — the only idea left is "everything."

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