I wonder if they, intentionally or inadvertently, have optimized for investment scale at the expense of everything else? There is a market demand for "pure" AI

I wonder if they, intentionally or inadvertently, have optimized for investment scale at the expense of everything else? There is a market demand for "pure" AI startups that can take 9 figure investments. It's (comparatively) "easy" to optimize to be that company, but extremely hard to find a way to live up to the hype and provide a return in the investments, and this strategy often ruins the company.