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Your AI Stack Is Cheap Right Now. Your Growth Plan Shouldn't Depend on That Lasting

Nvidia, Microsoft, and Amazon are absorbing enormous losses right now to make AI compute and API pricing look like a bargain, because winning the platform war matters more to them this year than winning the quarter. Ask yourself one question before you build another workflow around a cheap AI tool: who's actually paying for how cheap it is?

Your AI Stack Is Cheap Right Now. Your Growth Plan Shouldn't Depend on That Lasting

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Ask yourself one question before you build another workflow around a cheap AI tool: who's actually paying for how cheap it is?

Nvidia, Microsoft, and Amazon are absorbing enormous losses right now to make AI compute and API pricing look like a bargain, because winning the platform war matters more to them this year than winning the...

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Ask yourself one question before you build another workflow around a cheap AI tool: who's actually paying for how cheap it is? Nvidia, Microsoft, and Amazon are absorbing enormous losses right now to make AI compute and API pricing look like a bargain, because winning the platform war matters more to them this year than winning the quarter.

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