The lights in these Silicon Valley towers are always so bright, aren't they? They shine down on a world that forgets what it means to earn its own light—the sweat of the brow, the yield of the field.
The current techno-economic fever surrounding AI models is not a free market ballet; it is a geopolitical contest for the next load-bearing wall of global power.
The whole debate over Chinese AI models and "distillation" is a spectacular piece of theater designed to distract us from one thing: concentrated power.