Alexandros Kazimirov is a legal scholar. Previously he was a research fellow at the American Antitrust Institute and a Transatlantic Technology Law Forum Fellow at Stanford Law School.
To compete in artificial intelligence (AI) markets, emerging companies must choose one of two routes: the capital-intensive route entails buying compute and datasets to build in-house foundation models and refining them into agents for specific use cases. Alternatively, emergents can license pre-trained models and lease compute to focus on developing applications for the end user, whether that is a solo software developer or an entire business domain.