The Rent-Seeking Trap: Why Your AI Strategy Needs a Hard Fork

Centralized AI is not winning because it is technically inevitable; it is winning because it can subsidize costs, hoard talent, own distribution, and rent intelligence back to everyone else. The way out is a decentralized AI stack: open models, model r…


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Centralized AI is not winning because it is technically inevitable; it is winning because it can subsidize costs, hoard talent, own distribution, and rent intelligence back to everyone else. The way out is a decentralized AI stack: open models, model routing, edge inference, open evals, portable data, domain-specific RAG, and products where the AI layer can be swapped instead of worshipped.


This content originally appeared on HackerNoon and was authored by AIthics


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