Are The AI Labs Getting Nationalized?
Avi sits down with Ari Paul. His former boss, founder of BlockTower Capital, and one of the sharpest minds in crypto, for a wide-ranging conversation on what's next. We discuss why crypto was the easiest table in finance and why that edge is gone, why the best people left crypto for AI, why Ari believes "Mythos is a military project" and the labs are heading for a Los Alamos-style lockdown, why the AI data center boom rhymes with the 1990s fiber bubble, where AI value actually accrues (why you might short Accenture but not Visa), why one person with an LLM can now do the work of a whole team…
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