How we’ll fight the platform war against Big AI

One aspect of strategy that’s been largely lost in the tech industry in recent years is how to compete against platforms, since the major tech companies have gotten so big that markets are no longer competitive. However, the AI market is still early enough, and users and society are still angry enough, that the Big AI companies can lose. But for them to lose, everybody else in the ecosystem has to carry out the nearly-lost art of platform strategy . Tech companies (and even open source communities!) used to