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Invert the AI Scaling Consensus: Four Constraints, One Real Fragility
Four constraints could break AI scaling. Three have engineering workarounds. The fourth, capital structure, is the one lacking an engineering response.
Four constraints could break AI scaling. Three have engineering workarounds. The fourth, capital structure, is the one lacking an engineering response.
A $249 Jetson box running Llama 3 locally will not replace enterprise AI infrastructure by itself. But it puts pressure on the low end of the cloud API market.
Google's Gemma 4 release isn't generosity. It's a targeted attack on the profit pool where GPT-4o-mini and Claude Haiku live.