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Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Guo on Compute Concerns in AI Development

Sarah Guo identifies compute as a significant concern in AI development, noting that many people believe they have a solid understanding of future compute needs. However, she finds the projection of sufficient compute before 2030 to be 'depressing'.

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I think compute is one. People think that they understand that very well. The version of us having enough compute over the next five to 10 years that they are like, there was nothing that is going to move the needle for us. As efficiency scale before 2030, that's depressing.
Sarah Guo
Heard on Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy — “Sarah Guo - Funding the Frontier - [Invest Like the Best, EP.489], published Tuesday, September 1, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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