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The investor despair that nothing in AI is investable except the labs and Nvidia is wrong.
Their wordsThe mid-2026 investor's version of AI psychosis is a despair that nothing is investable, that we should put all our money into Anthropic and Nvidia and go home. I have never felt it.
Their wordsWhat's legible is what's leaving. The valuable work is illegible by construction: anything you can put on a leaderboard, you can train against, so anything measurable is already on its way to commodity.
Our reading
For AI in regulated work, intelligence is not the bottleneck; permission and accountability are.
Their wordsIntelligence is not the bottleneck here. Permission is, and so is accountability.
Our reading
The model layer is not a single-player game, so labs cannot simply bleed out the apps built on them.
Their wordsit only works if the model layer is a single-player game. It clearly isn't
Their wordsThe despair is half right. The thin wrapper layer really is being absorbed, and a lot of what looks like a company today is a thin wrapper.
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