Alex Kantrowitz

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The Compound and Friends · Why Demand for Compute Is About to Explode With Alex Kantrowitz · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

He does own investments in some of the startups or maybe all of the startups in OpenAI's startup fund.

Yeah, I mean, I don't know if it's steering winners and losers, but certainly like if he builds great AI models, he's going to stand to benefit in some way.

And I don't hate that.

Let's talk about this.

Hasn't said it.

I agree.

I think that would be better.

I also think that

It is, you put yourself in an interesting position when you're investing in the startups that are using your technology.

Because, so Sam also in these interviews, in both of the interviews he did this week, said that his goal is to provide intelligence to everybody and not to build, basically hoard it and build products using that intelligence.

But, you know, if that is sort of the, if the path forward for your company is to build products, you put yourself in a weird position.

If you're, if you're basically,

funding all these companies, and you're also going to go out and build products in some way, that's a conflict of interest.

Yes.

Something tells me he could just acquire himself.

I mean, we wouldn't seek circular funding in the AI world.

Okay.

So in AI, so there's basically two big schools of AI development.

One is called self-supervised learning, which is basically you teach it to predict patterns.

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