**At present, Big Tech companies such as Microsoft, Google and Amazon are positioned to strengthen their foothold on the digital economy, consolidating their power by dominating both the commercial AI industry and the horizon for future AI research. Without the robust enforcement of competition laws, generative AI could irreversibly cement Big Tech’s advantage, giving a handful of companies power over technology that mediates much of our lives. There are several reasons why, as things stand, there is no AI without Big Tech. The biggest technology companies have significant first-mover advantages in this market. Most notably, they have access to the resources large-scale AI is dependent on, from massive data sets to the computational power to process them, to the skills and expertise needed to build these AI systems. --v 5 --q 2 --s 250** - Image #2 <@806256827037384756>
At present, Big Tech companies such as Microsoft, Google and Amazon are positioned to strengthen their foothold on the digital economy, consolidating their power by dominating both the commercial AI industry and the horizon for future AI research. Without the robust enforcement of competition laws, generative AI could irreversibly cement Big Techs advantage, giving a handful of companies power over technology that mediates much of our lives. There are several reasons why, as things stand, there is no AI without Big Tech. The biggest technology companies have significant firstmover advantages in this market. Most notably, they have access to the resources largescale AI is dependent on, from massive data sets to the computational power to process them, to the skills and expertise needed to build these AI systems.