&gt;  In so much as a solution depends on &quot;cleverness&quot; rather than raw computing power, it&#x27;ll have room for competition.<p>Unfortunately, it&#x27;s looking more and more like it&#x27;s going to be a competition on training data and raw computational power, and it&#x27;s hard to compete with Google&#x27;s corpora from the web, gmail, captchas, maps, etc. -- not to mention Google&#x27;s tremendous number crunching resources.