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This post argues that AI is dismantling rent-seeking business models that profit by exploiting human time constraints and information asymmetry.
•Businesses like cable companies and insurers have long profited by designing friction-heavy processes that cost customers more time than they cost the company
•AI acts as a 'great equalizer of time,' eliminating the time asymmetry that enabled large-scale rent extraction
•The author maps the AI supply chain into 5 tiers: electricity, chip manufacturing, chip design/software, models, and applications, arguing most tiers are commoditized
•Chinese open-source models (Qwen, MiniMax, Kimi) are seen as 6-12 months behind top closed models, and are framed as a public utility rather than rent-seeking tools
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Simple API access via platforms like OpenRouter means human-level AI is ending up in the hands of individuals, not locked behind walled gardens
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