Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell...
by novaRom on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:51PM
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Classical monopoly (or duopoly) requires a moat. This is the moat they build. Everyone will just rent centralized intelligence - that's a promise to investors.
Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell...
by spwa4 on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:32PM
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Yeah, but the key here is: the moat is not AI at all! The moat is they're buying all new computers (the key components). Every last one. So you can't get one, but you will be renting one, at seriously increased prices.
Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell...
by AyanamiKaine on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:00PM
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That's an interesting take. I had a similar thought about safety and how AI providers propagate that using cloud options is safer because hosting a server is open to attack vectors, and who would manage that best if not the big providers themselves.
The fact that Hugging Face was attacked not by a small amount of compute but such a vast amount of computation. It was only possible because its already so centralized by Open AI.
It feels a bit like cyberpunk where only the big companies in reality will have the resource to pull of such an attack.
1) AI really does require a scaleup in compute power. In other words: you will be upgrading your hardware or use old software.
2) the AI buildout means you can't buy the hardware, you can only rent it "in the cloud".
It only works, of course, if Amazon and Google and Meta and ... keep buying for another 2-3 years but that seems to be exactly what's happening.
Worst of all: monopolies used to at least require investment. But Amazon and Google aren't investing, really. They're still net profitable companies. It's almost insulting.