AI democratizes software, but concentrates physical power

Here is the point that often gets lost behind the headlines about Nvidia, models, and intelligent assistants: AI can democratize certain software capabilities while drastically concentrating the infrastructure that makes them possible. A small business can use open models, purchase cloud services, and launch a product in weeks. That is a form of democratization. But if only five or six corporations can afford to train the most powerful models, secure electricity, and deploy millions of accelerators, that small business’s autonomy has a very clear limit. It can innovate at the product layer; it depends on others at the physical layer. This is similar to what we experienced with the internet, but more intense.

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