Is scaling data centers and talent all that matters in AI, leaving an opening to anyone

rich enough to compete? Is the aqua-hire zition good for tech? GROC will fall in lust with you,

and AI browsers and operators are all the rage. That's coming up on a Big Technology

Podcast Friday edition right after this. Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition right after this.

Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition, where we break down the news in our traditional cool-headed and nuanced format.

We have a massive week of news for you.

We're going to talk all about the fallout from the aqua-hire positions, whether employees and investors are left behind. We're also going to

talk about whether all you need is money to compete in AI. We'll lead with that. GROX AI will now

fall in love with you or actually really in lust. Ranjan, it's great to see you again. Welcome to the

show. It's good to see you. Who would have thought aqua-hireization would be the term of the year,

but that's all I can think about, and I'm going to give you credit. You coined it.

I think that it's worth us shouting out right now, this weird back and forth between aqua-hire,

acquisition, investment. It's got to to go we need some clarity in our

jargon and that's what we're here to do on big technology podcast is to bring you that clarity

it's called an aqua hiarition let's all adopt the term and get on with it let's just agree it's

aqua heirsition i think i'm on board let's everyone adopt it because it's the most accurate way to describe what's going on.

And our two-person council here on Big Technology podcast Friday edition, this motion is hereby considered and passed by a unanimous to zero vote.

So let's get on to the setup here for aqua-hiresitions, which is something very interesting afoot in the AI industry.

Now, we all know that companies like OpenAI and DeepMind within Google and Anthropic have been leading this AI race.

But all the designs for the transformer model and the way that you build these things have been out

in the open leading to this question can players with a lot of money come in build massive data

centers higher talent and effectively compete from a zero start with the established labs. And the answer is seemingly pointing to yes.

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