Tag: infrastructure

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• The Inference Substrate, or Why Every AI App Pays a Tax It Cannot See

  Updated:Apr 14, 2026 |  at 11:26 AM

  Every company building on closed AI models pays a permanent, growing tax in cost, latency, and wasted generality. There is no infrastructure layer fixing it, and the model companies structurally cannot build one. This is the thesis for the layer that should exist in the empty middle, and why it is an infrastructure and cryptography problem rather than an AI research one.