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From the Jul 22, 2026 daily brief
In the same interview he decomposed the AI bubble by layer: "seed rounds for startups that basically haven't even got going yet, and they're raising at tens of billions of dollars valuations just out of the gate" — sustainable? "My guess is, probably not." Big-tech valuations, by contrast, have "a lot of real business underlying" them. DeepMind itself, he argues, wins either way — its own TPU stack plus Google's product lines can monetize the AI without betting on new products. On AGI timelines: "even ours are five to 10 years, which is not long for institutions or things like that to be built" — while the governance institutions that do exist "seem to be very fragmented and not very influential to the level that you would need" (GDM Podcast, 2025-12). Caveat: "we win either way" is a story that flatters the teller — borrow it as a framework, don't copy it as a conclusion.
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