After data and compute, the next picks-and-shovels are talent and physical infrastructure
philhchen · x · 2026-10-23
Building on Alexandr Wang's framing that data and compute are AI's picks and shovels, the author argues that the recent gold rush into data has revealed it as a genuinely hard business — so the next critical layer is talent and physical infrastructure.
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