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Martín Casado, a16z general partner, warns open-source AI faces $2 billion training and distillation bottlenecks, drawing developer pushback

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T3 Stack creator Theo Browne and research engineer Teknium debate prompt complexity after Browne objects to a Polymarket referenceBrowne abandoned the application following the prompt-design dispute.

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Martín Casado, a16z general partner, warns open-source AI faces $2 billion training and distillation bottlenecks, drawing developer pushback

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T3 Stack creator Theo Browne and research engineer Teknium debate prompt complexity after Browne objects to a Polymarket referenceBrowne abandoned the application following the prompt-design dispute.

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