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Will Brown warns AI labs may offload excess compute

Secondary providers would use the surplus for open-source models.

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Positive users see big AI labs offloading data center capacity to open model providers as bullish for markets and society with future opportunities, while negative users call the scenario horrible and fear it reduces need for human labor.

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YU Yun@huangyoon

7:06 PM · Jul 17, 2026

@willccbb evals aside will, you truly write well. your writing often feels like years of papers compressed into short blocks

CL cletusigwe@0xcletusigwe

11:14 AM · Jul 17, 2026

@willccbb this is the future. you guys can also be a lorahub where people build and sell LoRAs from rl

AR Anthony Ronning@anthonyronning

11:27 AM · Jul 17, 2026

@willccbb I’m all for this sarcastic Will arc right now 🔥

WB will brown@willccbb

7:10 PM · Jul 17, 2026

@huangyoon thank you:)

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MZ Mario Zechner@badlogicgames

11:46 AM · Jul 17, 2026

@willccbb HORRIBLE

B(Ben (no treats)@andersonbcdefg

5:20 PM · Jul 17, 2026

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@willccbb oh no

WB will brown@willccbb

11:07 AM · Jul 17, 2026

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oh no what if the big labs can’t easily recoup all of their capex on massive data centers and some of the buildout capacity gets offloaded to other providers who deliver it to the long tail of enterprises with a software stack for serving and continually improving open models

WB will brown@willccbb

11:12 AM · Jul 17, 2026

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imagine how terrible it’d be if actors like pfizer and goldman sachs and walmart and disney had their own private frontier models

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