A thread argues the US had the full technosphere needed to invent LLMs
wordgrammer · x · 2026-07-28
A quoted thread argues that the US was uniquely positioned to invent LLMs because it had the right mix of social media dialogue data, a huge software-engineering base, capital markets, and domestic B2B cloud demand.
The argument extends to a broader “technosphere” thesis: only a few countries have the full stack of social media, search, cloud, and chips, and Europe’s “sovereign AI” ambitions are portrayed as incomplete unless they build that full ecosystem.
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