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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.

Pallet pivoted after rock bottom to build AI for the physical economy
Agent governance startup AI Score banks €4.6M seed
Travis Kalanick’s robotics startup scores $1.7B from a16z and Uber
Sequoia circles motion-capture startup Mecka at a $500M mark
Ex-Apptio founders land $21M seed for enterprise AI venture Thira
TAGGED:20VCAI acquisitionsAI startupsBenchmarkseed fundingventure capital
SOURCES:20VC with Harry Stebbings
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