AI Model Commoditization, Provider Concentration & Strategic Platform Risk

Open-source adoption, cheaper inference, model switching, hardware optimization, cloud subsidies, and incumbent bundling continue to compress AI margins and weaken model-only moats. Production deployment—not demos, accelerator affiliation, or benchmark claims—must establish latency, quality, reliability, utilization, failover, licensing, total cost, customer retention, and platform-dependency risk.

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