The Haves and Have-Nots of the AI Gold Rush

The haves and have nots of the AI gold rush

Deedy Das estimated that about 10,000 founders and employees at companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia have accumulated more than $20 million in wealth, while many software engineers face layoffs, sub-$500,000 career ceilings, and anxiety that their core skills are losing labor-market value.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: the wealth-gap angle is clickable, the $20M/10,000-person estimate is concrete, and the labor-market anxiety is strong. It is commentary, not a model, product, or funding event, so it stays at the featured threshold.