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Three VCs debate the pace of AI-era venture spending

Benchmark and Scale investors weigh $10B AI acquisitions, seed-stage risk and a faster venture market.

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Last updated: October 2, 2026 2:35 am
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Benchmark’s Jack Altman, investor Jason Lemkin and Scale’s Rory O’Driscoll work through the week’s venture news, from AMD’s $8.2B purchase of Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs to Meta poaching MongoDB’s chief executive.

The panel debates whether $10B AI acquisitions are becoming routine, whether traditional seed investing is broken, and how fast venture capital should really move.

Callosum banks $100M to pair AI workloads with cheaper silicon
OpenAI pays $300M for the Apple veterans behind Glass Imaging
SaaS veterans weigh Instinct’s $10B tag and Miro’s cut price sale
All-In weighs model welfare as Anthropic rethinks Claude
Inference startup Modal Labs eyes a $15B valuation
TAGGED:20VCAI acquisitionsAI startupsBenchmarkseed fundingventure capital
SOURCES:20VC with Harry Stebbings
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