[chii]

> would all be using the same AI model

i think this is a very large assumption.

What if in the future, AI models are as guarded as nuclear weapons? Because why doesn't this argument apply for nuclear weapons, but does for AI?

[wallst07]

Because AI models can create other ones and the weights/training data is what models. So you can hoard data, but not the models.

[ijk]

Hence the drive to control the compute hardware. If your competitors can't run inference at competitive scale and cost, they can't challenge you.