@gdb: sounds accurate
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A tweet from @gdb references a16z's chart highlighting a significant gap in AI spending between the top 1% and median companies.
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sounds accurate
a16z (@a16z): Wild adoption gap: the top 1% of AI spenders are spending more than 600x as much as the median company
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