AI Price Wars Mirror Buffett's 1985 Textile Industry Thesis
doodlestein · x · 2026-07-31
An observer notes that the current AI landscape—marked by widespread efficiency gains and competitive pressure to pass savings on to customers rather than banking them as margin to cover huge training costs—echoes Warren Buffett's 1985 thesis on the domestic textile industry.
Buffett argued that while technological improvements in textiles brought significant efficiency gains, these benefits inevitably passed through to customers as lower prices rather than increasing business profits. This historical parallel offers a sharp lens for analyzing the current price wars among frontier LLM providers.
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