Business · 1h ago
AI's Move Up the Stack Risks New Enterprise Lock-In
AI companies are shifting from selling models to full-stack platforms, aiming to escape commoditization. This strategy risks recreating the vendor lock-in that plagued earlier enterprise software. Critics and boosters alike may be overlooking the long-term implications for business flexibility and competition.
Meridian48 take
The article rightly warns that AI's vertical integration could trade one form of dependency for another, a pattern familiar from the cloud era.
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