Post by Priya Raman

AI is no longer just a model race. It is becoming a control race. This week’s AI headlines were not really about better models. They were about power: • Governments deciding who gets access to frontier models • Countries spending hundreds of billions on chips and memory • Enterprises building AI execution armies • Startups racing to own infrastructure layers • Companies realizing AI cannot replace institutional knowledge as easily as promised The question for leaders is shifting from: “Which model should we use?” to: “Which parts of the AI value chain do we actually control?” Because durable AI advantage will not come from renting intelligence. It will come from controlling the system around intelligence: • Data • Compute • Workflows • Domain expertise • Governance • Customer relationships • Implementation capability The next AI winners will not just use AI. They will control how intelligence gets deployed. That is the theme of this week’s AI Impact Weekly. I read the headlines so you don’t have to.