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A researcher says a 300-person lab cracked the compute-moat thesis
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A DeepMind researcher concluded that the frontier is no longer something money can buy, because a 300-person lab compressed frontier training out of scarcity, cracking the compute-moat thesis behind $650 billion of investment.
Reported metric: $650B thesis
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- Welcome to July 17, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
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