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Gil: Foundation model funding is mostly strategic hyperscalers, not VC

Elad Gil · #52: Elad Gil on What to Build in AI (Part II) · More or Less Podcast · Jun 21, 2024 · at 9:23

Elad Gil breaks down capital structures in the AI sector during a discussion on LLM investments.

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“Most of the money funding foundation models is strategic, right? Versus venture capital. Venture capital maybe funds things into the hundreds of millions, and then it gets handed off to Google and Amazon and Facebook and all the other folks to invest billions or maybe tens of billions of dollars against it.”

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