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Mark Cuban [Composite image, DI Studio; Photo, Sandra Louz \/DRC]<\/p>\n
Mark Cuban, speaking at Convergence AI Dallas last week, on what could be ahead for AI companies that don\u2019t end up among a small group of winners after massive spending on foundational models.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe haven\u2019t seen the best of AI, in my opinion,\u201d Cuban said, \u201cand it\u2019s going to just get crazier and crazier and crazier.\u201d<\/p>\n
The billionaire entrepreneur said he already sees a shift beyond today\u2019s large language models. He expects a move toward what he called a \u201cworld view\u201d approach: AI that understands the physical world through video, materials, and real-world data. Cuban pointed to a company he\u2019s invested in that\u2019s launching satellites capable of identifying the composition of natural materials from orbit, \u201clike a spectrograph,\u201d determining whether something is wood, rock, or something else.<\/p>\n
Business journalist Alex Kantrowitz interviewed him on stage for an hour, covering far more than business strategy. Here are six things we learned about Cuban from that conversation that didn\u2019t make our full story<\/a>, but stuck with us.<\/p>\n 1. He drives around talking to AI in his car\u2014and admits it\u2019s weird.<\/p>\n \u201cI have it hooked up in my car, and I\u2019ll be driving and talking to it, and I\u2019ll catch myself. This is strange,\u201d Cuban told the audience. But get over the hesitancy, he said. \u201cSome of the answers \u2026 they\u2019re good answers. You\u2019re like, that shit is good.\u201d If you\u2019re a CEO, manager, or employee hesitant to have what he called \u201ca heart-to-heart conversation with your AI,\u201d you\u2019re going to fall behind.<\/p>\n 2. His daughter is about to join a consulting firm. He blessed it\u2014and here\u2019s why.<\/p>\n Kantrowitz asked whether consulting is dead in an AI world where a single prompt can generate a business analysis. Cuban said the opposite. His daughter is about to graduate and join a consulting firm, and he supports the move. Someone still has to help companies rebuild around AI, he said\u2014and that\u2019s gut-wrenching work. \u201cThe hardest challenge for those CEOs is, am I willing to blow up my business knowing that my stock price could collapse in the meantime, and then I have to build it up,\u201d he said. Consulting firms with proprietary knowledge, he added, will be the ones guiding that process.<\/p>\n 3. Of AI\u2019s two biggest leaders, he sees a bit of himself in Dario Amodei.<\/p>\n Cuban said Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei\u2019s provocative public messaging reminds him of his own Broadcast.com playbook. \u201cThat\u2019s part of raising money,\u201d he said. He recalled telling people that streaming would replace cable and satellite. \u201cIt didn\u2019t,\u201d he said, \u201cbut I kept on saying it. And here we are 30 years later, and we\u2019ve kind of gotten there.\u201d Cuban praised Anthropic\u2019s focus on programming and agents, saying \u201ctheir niche is going to hold for them.\u201d He called Open Ai\u2019s Sam Altman\u2019s accomplishments \u2018amazing\u2019 but said he\u2019s been harder to read on long-term strategy.<\/p>\n 4. His advice to hospitals and researchers: \u201cDo not publish. Sell.\u201d<\/p>\n Cuban noted that the patent system may be working against innovators in the AI era. Once research is published or a patent is filed, he said, it quickly becomes training data. \u201cAll of a sudden every model has been trained on it, and you\u2019ve given away your advantage,\u201d he said. It\u2019s advice he shares directly with hospitals and research campuses through his work at Cost Plus Drugs.<\/p>\n 5. He thinks AI is splitting people into two camps\u2014and one of them is in trouble.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople who use AI so they don\u2019t have to learn anything, and people who use AI so they can learn everything,\u201d Cuban said. He pointed to his own experience. \u201cWhen I was younger, I used to go into bookstores and sit in the aisles and look at the books I couldn\u2019t afford to buy.\u201d Now, he said, even a child anywhere in the world can access \u201cevery library, pretty much every professor, every consultant\u201d from a smartphone. But if you\u2019re only using AI as a shortcut? \u201cYou\u2019re going to struggle.\u201d<\/p>\n 6. The \u201coperative word\u201d for surviving the AI era? Iterate.<\/p>\n \u201cThe key word in an AI world is iterate,\u201d Cuban said. As tools evolve quickly, companies that pause after hitting a milestone risk getting passed by competitors who keep improving. \u201cYou have to continuously iterate\u201d\u2014because in an AI environment, \u201canybody can come in and say they\u2019re not improving\u2014they don\u2019t understand this tool\u2014and so I\u2019m going to go compete with them.\u201d<\/p>\n Read next<\/p>\n For Cuban\u2019s takes on the \u201cSaaSpocalypse,\u201d OpenAI\u2019s historic raise, and how one Shark Tank company is saving $50K a month with an AI-powered shipping audit agent, go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Mark Cuban shares a laugh with interviewer Alex Kantrowitz, host of the Big Technology Podcast, during a candid conversation at Convergence AI Dallas on March 31. [Photo: Sandra Louz\/DRC]<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mark-Cuban-Alex-Kantrowitz-Convergence-AI-2026-DRC_1Y2A0962.jpg\")
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