{"id":14858,"date":"2026-05-17T14:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=14858"},"modified":"2026-05-17T14:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:04:18","slug":"the-haves-and-have-nots-of-the-ai-gold-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=14858","title":{"rendered":"The haves and have nots of the AI gold rush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vibes across the present AI growth aren\u2019t nice, even within the tech trade, in line with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/deedydas\/status\/2055491938464489888\">a prolonged social media publish<\/a> from Menlo Ventures accomplice Deedy Das.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Das described San Francisco as \u201cfairly frenetic proper now,\u201d as \u201cthe divide in outcomes is the worst I\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Utilizing a \u201cagain of the envelope AI calculation,\u201d he projected that there are round 10,000 individuals\u00a0\u2014 founders and staff at corporations like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia \u2014 which have \u201chit retirement wealth of properly above $20M,\u201d whereas everybody else worries \u201cthey&#8217;ll work their well-paying (however &lt;$500k) job for his or her entire life and by no means get there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plus, \u201clayoffs are in full swing,\u201d and \u201cmany software program engineers really feel that their life\u2019s talent is now not helpful,\u201d resulting in confusion about the most effective profession paths and \u201ca deep malaise about work (and its future),\u201d Das mentioned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This prompted some eye-rolling on X, with entrepreneur Deva Hazarika <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/devahaz\/status\/2055507303378600130\">arguing<\/a> that \u201cthe general public on this publish\u201d are \u201cextremely lucky and might merely make a option to be pleased.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One other consumer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/signulll\/status\/2055499308833837538\">urged<\/a> it\u2019s \u201cfairly rattling novel &amp; additionally kinda nasty\u201d that within the present cycle, \u201cthe identical expertise is each the lottery ticket &amp; the factor consuming your fallback.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The vibes in SF really feel fairly frenetic proper now. The divide in outcomes is the worst I&#8217;ve ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>During the last 5yrs, a gaggle of ~10k individuals \u2013 staff at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD, founders \u2013 have hit retirement wealth of properly above $20M (again of the envelope\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Deedy (@deedydas) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/deedydas\/status\/2055491938464489888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">Could 16, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><template id="wpVWwpuvPEwjt3ECkwnv"></template><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vibes across the present AI growth aren\u2019t nice, even within the tech trade, in line with a prolonged social media publish from Menlo Ventures accomplice Deedy Das.\u00a0 Das described San Francisco as \u201cfairly frenetic proper now,\u201d as \u201cthe divide in outcomes is the worst I\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d Utilizing a \u201cagain of the envelope AI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[4379,9104,9105,9106],"class_list":["post-14858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news","tag-gold","tag-haves","tag-nots","tag-rush"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14859,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14858\/revisions\/14859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- This website is optimized by Airlift. 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