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Up the Stack: How AI's Escape From the Commodity Trap Risks Enterprise Lock-in
Charging for frontier model inference is unlikely to sustain the massive AI infrastructure investment because models resemble commodities and switching costs are low. Labs will instead try to escape the “commodity trap” by migrating up the stack toward enterprise-style lock-in via vertical integration and embedded deployments, which could improve profitability but risks enterprise lock-in and reduced competition.
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