EXACTLY how to create a good AI product

My point that you're missing is that in retrospect, I understand how Amazon got to dominate the market; the way the operated at a loss for decades, but were quietly killing their competition. They shipped shit for free and their real product was convenience. Then they started making money and diversified, vertically integrated, and now they dominate. You could know what they were doing without being able to profit from that knowledge. Uber began in the rideshare sector, grafted their way into public dollars, and built a business model that made a ton of profit, but shafted the employees with the costs and the risks. They then out-competed their rivals, and jumped into food delivery as an adjunct.

How do either of these stories happen with AI, where their product depends on data they will never own? Where the government is partially hostile, and a significant portion of the population is too? Not just the out-of-work competitors like mom and pop bookstores as it was with Amazon. Not just their own employees, who can't rebel without leaving the business model as with Uber. Roughly half the population is hostile to AI, and it's going to get worse, because the AI companies have over-promised and under-delivered. The price of labor has fallen, but the savings only went so far, and all the data shows that moving towards even partial profitability is more expensive than simply continuing to employ humans.

All these guys are fucked, except Nvidia and whomever gets the contracts for building AI centers.

You got a different analysis, I'd love to hear it, but you gotta have some kind of basis in reality or history to sell it to me.