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Ken Crutchfield: Lessons From Steel — Why LLMs Will Become Commodities

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Legal technology commentator Ken Crutchfield analyzes how LLMs, though currently led by companies like OpenAI and Anthropic with high valuations, will eventually become commodities like steel or other industrial materials.

Why it matters

Understanding LLMs as inevitable commodities helps explain why fierce competition and regulation will reshape the AI industry's economics and power structure.

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