There’s this very unfortunate tendency right now in the AI space to gloss over these more pragmatic aspects of our industry and our product, to pretend that all these new systems are somehow detached from the profit motive of the corporations that developed them, the supply chains and compute capacities that power them. As if AI has an almost mystical role to play in some imagined altruistic future. But really it’s just chips and electricity and brilliant employees. It’s resources and product.
