Elad Gil quote, Apr 20, 2026

Investor · Apr 20, 2026 · Post, Random thoughts while gazing at the misty AI Frontier

While people will undoubtedly get more efficiency out of the compute they have, this artificial compute constraint may mean no one lab is able to break significantly ahead until 2028 at the soonest - re-enforcing an oligopoly market for LLMs.

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Sep 22, 2026	If the top U.S. labs have to give up on what is supposed to be really important, they will look very “catchable.” The policy creates a big incentive for some other parts of the world to invest a lot more in compute.Tyler CowenSep 22, 2026· Post	PostBanning self-recursive improvement in AI models?	Source
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Topics: Compute
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