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Infrastructure providers are shifting from competitive capacity hoarding to utility-like compute selling, prioritizing partnerships with highest-value model developers.

Impact: Accelerates market consolidation and forces legacy tech firms to secure guaranteed capacity or face structural competitive disadvantages.

— from AI Compute Reallocation and SaaS Valuation Reset · The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch· May 14, 2026

Current AI deployment relies on frozen models augmented by non-parametric workarounds like RAG and context windows, which are effective but face hard scalability and override limitations.

Impact: Companies relying solely on context-based scaffolding will encounter performance ceilings and increased operational costs as use cases grow more complex.

— from Beyond Frozen Models: The Business Case for AI Continual Learning · AI + a16z· Apr 28, 2026