Less than two years after ChatGPT turned AI into a topic of dinner table conversation and propelled it to the top of the policy agenda, it is clear that AI is further concentrating power in a handful of Big Tech firms and their “partners” who have access to the building blocks needed to develop and deploy the most advanced generative AI systems: data, compute, and talent. The unprecedented amounts of data needed to train foundation models and make them capable of everything from writing poetry to diagnosing cancer is entrenching the power of existing tech gatekeepers while creating a potentially insurmountable advantage to incumbents.
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