Resource control over land, energy, data centers, and advanced chips represents the primary barrier to entry for the AI industry.
While the bottom four hardware-centric layers are being monopolized by tech giants, the top layer of AI models is rapidly becoming a commodity due to aggressive price competition and open-source availability.
The AI industry is defined by massive physical infrastructure requirements including land and nuclear energy.
Hardware and physical resource control is essential, leading to trillion-dollar concentrations of power among tech giants.
AI model software is rapidly hitting a point of commoditization due to fierce market pressure from all sides.
Businesses looking to compete should focus on the application and utility layers rather than competing with the infrastructure giants.
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