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Meta’s Muse shows where AI’s value will accrue

Not to the models, but to whoever holds the complementary assets — here, the personal context that makes the product useful. Steam, railroads, electricity: the general-purpose technology gets cheaper and the scarce complements capture the surplus.

FIG. 01 — FROM THE ORIGINAL THREAD

Meta’s @Muse offers a glimpse of where AI’s value will accrue: not to the models, but to whoever holds the complementary assets. Here, the personal context that makes the product useful.

Which is why @finkd had to double down on privacy. You can’t build a moat out of secrets people won’t tell you.

Steam, railroads, electricity, internal combustion. A familiar pattern: the general purpose technology gets cheaper… the scarce complements capture the surplus. forwardfuture.com

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