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The Beginning of the End of the Cloud Empire
Let’s be clear: the cloud isn’t dying. But the age of unquestioned cloud supremacy — that decade-long reign where every ounce of intelligence had to pass through someone else’s API — that’s beginning to crack. We’re entering the post-imperial phase of compute. The Great Inversion For twenty years, the cloud has been the empire of cognition: centralized, industrial, and rented by the teraflop. It made sense. The economics of scale were brutal. Training frontier models requir

Rich Washburn
Oct 202 min read


The Rising Significance of Compute in the AI-Driven Future
As we edge closer to an era dominated by artificial intelligence and advanced computational capabilities, the concept of...

Rich Washburn
Jun 7, 20243 min read
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