A US ban on open-source AI obliterates the hundreds of millions of dollars Meta poured into its Llama foundation models.
Open source AI destroys the premium on knowledge work, shifting global wealth to China's 200 billion square feet of physical manufacturing capacity.
Language models are rapidly commoditizing, shifting the real value to proprietary training data owners like Reddit who already rake in $130M from AI deals.
Language models are commoditizing fast, shifting the real leverage to Google as they train Gemini on billions of proprietary YouTube videos.
As language models hit parity, AI builders must hand billions in copyright settlements to proprietary data owners like the New York Times.
Apple funneled $900 billion into buybacks and dividends instead of building the next generation of AI and cars, starving its future growth engine.