Beyond the Model: The Unlikely Architecture of the AI Winners
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The real winners of the AI boom aren't the flashy model makers like OpenAI or Anthropic; they're the companies controlling the underlying infrastructure. NVIDIA dominates computing hardware, vLLM is becoming the standard for open-source AI serving, and Stripe's reported $8 billion acquisition of OpenRouter positions it to control AI routing and billing. As AI models become commodities, the pipes, tollbooths, and payment systems underneath them hold the most lasting value.
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