If Intelligence Is Getting Cheap, Buying Businesses Becomes the AI Deployment Play
marcbhargava · x · 2026-10-21
Thread amplifies a long article "If Intelligence Is Getting Cheap, What Remains Expensive?". The core argument: the hardest part of enterprise AI is no longer building the agent but getting it adopted, changing how work happens, and capturing the value created. The author argues that owning the business itself changes the equation—as model improvements drive the price of intelligence down rapidly, acquiring existing businesses becomes a unique strategy to deploy AI into the real world, and shares how @llmh thinks about buying, building, and deploying.
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