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How Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are monopolizing our AI future
Once a tech giant gives a startup access to its cloud services and its large language models, it has pretty much assured itself a form of control over a fledgling firm that might one day have grown into a competitor. There's data suggesting that Amazon has made it a standard operating procedure to " engulf" the products of small, open-source competitors and repackage them as part of its own suite of services, as it did with the Elastic search engine. In a paper with Bengt-Åke Lundvall, an economist at Aalborg University in Denmark, Rikap notes that articles in technical and academic journals from researchers at Microsoft, Google, and Amazon consistently had coauthors employed by their competitors.
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