Even a better, cheaper model can't save Neolabs without the right market
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-10-28
Part 7 of the Neolab economics thread: even if you ship a model more useful and better-priced than what big labs offer, you still need a market with a high enough revenue-to-compute ratio and large enough demand to recoup the massive investment — a very hard game, the author concludes, inviting readers to question which assumptions are wrong.
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