It's been obvious for years that AI will bifurcate society even more between the haves and have nots, contrary to "democratizing AI" niceties espoused by big AI CEOs.<p>It was less obvious that access will be further gated by an Old Boy Network. I guess the frontier model whitelists of yestermonth were a portent.
Wonder if people going to this will have the same infamous sense of arrogance and entitlement that is common to Y combinator folks?<p>Source:<p><a href="https://x.com/mcuban/status/692595120969875456" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/mcuban/status/692595120969875456</a>
How could that possibly happen to a hand-picked group of YC's enterprise-AI founders?!
Mark Cuban posting about a sense of arrogance and entitlement is certainly <i>something</i>. There's a reason behind the character of HBO Silicon Valley's Russ Hanneman...<p>[spiderman pointing at spiderman.gif]
> The Early Access Network is an invite-only group of senior technology leaders who want to see what's coming before it's on anyone's shortlist.<p>> Four times a year, we put a hand-picked group of YC's enterprise-AI founders in a room with buyers who can actually run a pilot.<p>Seems like a win-win.
My guess - next round of this will be for pay. This is the soft-launch before they monetize this "exclusive access" .
I wonder what the dress code is.