MIT Scholar: Verification Network Effects Are the Only Moat in the AI Era

As AI intelligence becomes a cheap commodity and open-source models catch up to closed ones, traditional moats are failing. MIT's Christian Catalini argues that only "verification-level network effects" can survive as an effective competitive barrier in the AI era.

2026-08-02 ~ 2026-08-03 · 4 related posts

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