AITomasz Tunguzabout 18 hours ago
AI Companies Spend $10B on FDE Teams
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AI companies committed ~$10B in 12 months to forward-deployed engineering teams. FDE job postings surged 42x from 2023 to 2025. OpenAI raised $4B for its Deployment Company. Anthropic's JV pulled $1.5B from Blackstone and others. Palantir invented the model with ~400-500 FDEs.
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