If intelligence is getting cheap, what remains expensive? The case for buying businesses
marcbhargava · x · 2026-10-22
The article "If Intelligence Is Getting Cheap, What Remains Expensive?" argues that as models keep improving, the price of intelligence is rapidly declining — and what stays scarce is everything around it. The author contends that acquiring existing businesses is a unique strategy for deploying AI into the real world: buy companies with real customers, operations and distribution, then inject AI capability, rather than building from scratch.
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