AI labs
8 statements across 6 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Mar 24, 2025 by Brendan Foody · across every show →
Everything said about AI labs, oldest first
Mar 24, 2025 bullish
Foody: AI data training shifted from low-skilled crowdsourcing to high-caliber expert vetting
“What we realized was that there was this really large shift happening in the human data market where large AI labs are hiring thousands of people to train the next generation of LLMs. And it used to be this crowdsourcing problem that was super low skilled, rig…”
Jul 8, 2025 bearish
Hays: AI labs risk valuation collapse if AGI is delayed past 2027
“And so when timelines extend and AGI isn't happening, you know, next year or the following year or whatever, I start to get generally a little bit worried because that's a lot of EV to kind of maintain for another half a decade or a decade, whatever it turns i…”
Feb 10, 2026 negative
Coogan: Abstract Super Bowl ads are too risky for AI labs
“You know, I think Apple, Google, like the really established brands do have the permission to sort of go higher higher abstraction. And just sort of do, like, these brand films. For the AI labs who are trying to push a particular product, it's, it feels like a…”
Feb 18, 2026 neutral
McCormick: AI labs obsess over competitor compute despite public denials
“And this is really, really relevant to the AI lab discussion because you can tell that even though all of the leaders of the AI lab say, I don't think about the competition. I don't talk about the competition. I'll use general terms. They're all obsessed with …”
Feb 23, 2026 negative
Shah: AI labs avoid predicting economic fallout to protect fundraising
“But they can't go so far as to say like, hey, if you put the pieces together,
Then this is how it's going to play out.
I think it's too sort of damaging to sort of their reputations and like, you know, their ability to fundraise and things like that.”
Aug 12, 2026 bullish
Aug 12, 2026 bullish
Aug 12, 2026 neutral