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Edge AI, AI Spend Cuts, and the New VC Liquidity Machine

Monday, July 6, 2026 · 9 min

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Liquid AI, 20VC, and Goldman Sachs frame AI efficiency as the fight: smaller on-device foundation models, Coinbase-style AI spend cuts, and a $22B venture secondaries machine all point to infrastructure and capital getting brutally practical.

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Liquid AI, 20VC, and Goldman Sachs frame AI efficiency as the fight: smaller on-device foundation models, Coinbase-style AI spend cuts, and a $22B venture secondaries machine all point to infrastructure and capital getting brutally practical.

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