Amjad Masad says frontier AI investment should favor discovery over coding
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Replit CEO Amjad Masad says he would underwrite frontier AI investments mainly on new discovery and its applications, such as medicine, according to a post on X dated October 27, 2026.
He argues that coding and most knowledge work are being saturated quickly by sub-frontier models. The report is a single post by Masad, and the source gives no data or evidence for either claim.
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Amjad Masad@amasadXMasad says frontier AI investment should favor discovery over codingAIAmjad Masad says he would underwrite frontier AI investments mainly on new discovery and its applications, such as medicine. He argues coding and most knowledge work are quickly being saturated by sub-frontier models.
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