There could be geopolitical tension over AI

These are “unprecedented times”, said Debarghya Das, principal for AI and infrastructure at Menlo Ventures, pointing to private companies in artificial intelligence being valued on par with top public listed ones, Silicon Valley researchers earning a million dollars in salary, and lean startups raking in $200 million in revenue in the first year.

Das (32), who went from steering teams at Google and Glean to being one of the youngest investors in Silicon Valley, has led funding in Anthropic, the second-largest model developer after OpenAI. While…