VC BURNS MILLIONS OF AI TOKENS DAILY HUNTING UNICORNS
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A venture capitalist managing a $75 million AI-focused fund now spends hundreds of millions of tokens daily testing frontier models and reading research papers as part of his investment strategy.
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