Who owns intelligence? The question Big Tech would rather you didn't ask

Oct 2, 2026 5:34 PMPublished Oct 2, 2026 5:34 PM

Trillion-dollar AI giants are failing where it actually counts. A top-tier frontier model recently charged $5,000 to analyze a soccer match and returned data so useless it scored a zero. Meanwhile, a specialized independent model did the same job for just $10. With centralized AI demanding enough power to rival nuclear reactors, the "bigger is better" era is dead. Why pay for overpriced failure when specialized tech wins for pennies? Is big AI just a massive bubble?
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Three builders working on Bittensor, the blockchain marketplace for AI, make a case that the industry's future doesn't have to run through a handful of trillion-dollar companies. Their evidence is worth taking seriously.

www.thestreet.comWho owns intelligence? The question Big Tech would rather you didn't ask Three builders working on Bittensor, the blockchain marketplace for AI, make a case that the industry's future doesn't have to run through a handful of trillion-dollar companies. Their evidence is worth taking seriously.

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