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Frontier labs, and everybody else

October 7, 2026

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When the biggest AI labs keep leapfrogging each other, where does everyone else compete?

On Tuesday's show: "there's frontier labs, and then there's everybody else. Everybody else is probably up for grabs." Frontier labs are the handful of biggest model makers.

What decides it past that? "So much of it relates to the humans that you have behind the thing. Did you think of a new and novel way to show up?" And the move that follows: "compete in your lane."

If you build with AI rather than build AI, that's a freeing way to read the race.

Watch the episode: https://valuefirststudios.com/media/episode/vf-ai-daily-2026-10-06

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