amelius parent
73% of AI startups are building their castle in someone else's kingdom.
It's worse than that, someone else's models, someone else's smartphone operating systems, it's every conceivable disadvantage.
Every city should have its own municipal chip fabrication plant!
If you break up AT&T the Bell System will collapse!
Not sure if you're familiar, but it did collapse. It's all one company again.
-1: there's lots of "kingdoms" (openai, anthropic, google, plus open source) - if one king comes for your castle, you can move in minutes.
True, even OpenAI built their castle in nVidia's kingdom. And nVidia built their castle in TSMC's kingdom. And TSMC built their castle in ASML's kingdom.
TSMC bought a huge chunk of ASML's shares before taking the plunge on EUV -- enough to get them a board seat.
lastly we need the FDIC meme "Backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government" for good measure, haha.