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Meta's $200 Million Gamble on One Engineer Is Everything Wrong with Big Tech

Why throwing money at individual "geniuses" is the worst way to build artificial general intelligence

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Etienne de Bruin
Jul 11, 2025
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In 2001, the Washington Wizards made what seemed like the deal of the century. They signed Michael Jordan out of retirement - arguably the greatest basketball player who ever lived. The team's management believed that adding one transcendent talent would transform their losing franchise. Two seasons later, the Wizards failed to make the playoffs both ye…

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