"So how do they make money? Uh": the RL env company business model bit cracking up AI Twitter
tenderizzation · x · 2026-10-20
A viral bit mocking AI companies whose business scope defies explanation:
- "They're an RL env company, they just also sell compute and dat—"
- "Are they an inference provider? Of course. Which models? All the big open ones, but they also have some of their own."
- "So they also do posttraining? Yes."
- "So how do they make money? Uh"
willcb's reply delivers the punchline: "everything" — implying such companies dabble in everything except a coherent path to profit.
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