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Larry Ellison $ORCL highlighted something critical: models like ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Llama are all trained on largely the same public internet data. When everyone trains on the same information, models inevitably converge. That’s why AI is moving toward commoditization. The real moat isn’t the model itself. It’s the... show more

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Vivek Sen

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Larry Ellison just told every AI company on Earth they’re fighting the wrong war. The entire industry is racing to build the smartest model. More parameters. Better benchmarks. Faster inference. Ellison isn’t building a model. He’s controlling what every model needs to be useful. Every frontier AI trains on the same public internet. Same scraped pages. Same recycled text. When everyone has the same data, it’s not an advantage. It’s a floor. The only data that creates separation is private. Medical records. Financial models. Defense systems. Proprietary research locked behind firewalls for decades. That data already lives inside Oracle databases. Not Google’s. Not Microsoft’s. Not Amazon’s. Ellison didn’t enter the model war. He positioned himself above it. He rebuilt the database so AI can reason on private data without ever absorbing it. Training folds your data into the model permanently. Once it’s in, it never comes back out. Reasoning thinks with your data and hands back only the answer. The data never moves. One is surrender. The other is sovereignty. Ellison: “These are remarkable electronic brains.” He didn’t build the brain. He owns what the brain needs to think. Everyone is building the most powerful mind in human history. A mind is only as valuable as what it’s allowed to know. Own the knowledge and it doesn’t matter who builds the brain. That pattern has held through every era of human civilization. AI doesn’t break it. It proves it.

Larry Ellison just told every AI company on Earth they’re fighting the wrong war. The entire industry is racing to build the smartest model. More parameters. Better benchmarks. Faster inference. Ellison isn’t building a model. He’s controlling what every model needs to be useful. Every frontier AI trains on the same public internet. Same scraped pages. Same recycled text. When everyone has the same data, it’s not an advantage. It’s a floor. The only data that creates separation is private. Medical records. Financial models. Defense systems. Proprietary research locked behind firewalls for decades. That data already lives inside Oracle databases. Not Google’s. Not Microsoft’s. Not Amazon’s. Ellison didn’t enter the model war. He positioned himself above it. He rebuilt the database so AI can reason on private data without ever absorbing it. Training folds your data into the model permanently. Once it’s in, it never comes back out. Reasoning thinks with your data and hands back only the answer. The data never moves. One is surrender. The other is sovereignty. Ellison: “These are remarkable electronic brains.” He didn’t build the brain. He owns what the brain needs to think. Everyone is building the most powerful mind in human history. A mind is only as valuable as what it’s allowed to know. Own the knowledge and it doesn’t matter who builds the brain. That pattern has held through every era of human civilization. AI doesn’t break it. It proves it.

Dustin

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Aish

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The founder of Oracle got on stage and said something that made half the AI industry wince: "it no longer matters which model you use, Claude or ChatGPT. the models have become an interchangeable commodity, and all the value has shifted somewhere else." Larry Ellison knows what he's talking about. he took Oracle from $1,200 in his pocket to becoming the second richest man on the planet, and he's now building the world's largest AI cluster for OpenAI. every model trains on the same open internet data, so they quickly become identical. the edge doesn't come from the model, it comes from the closed data nobody else has but you. in 50 minutes he shows why models become interchangeable, why the only moat is private data, how Oracle built a 1.2 billion watt cluster for OpenAI, and why AI robots will operate more precisely than surgeons. while some argue over whose chatbot is smarter, others are quietly building defensive walls out of their private data. bookmark it and watch ↓

Damir Akaza

164,950 views • 2 months ago

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Mario Nawfal

15,855 views • 8 months ago

every question in this clip is an ownership question, especially data because when everyone has access to the same intelligence, the only input that separates your business from the next one is the data you own your data is decades of decisions, customers, mistakes, and edge cases that exist nowhere else on earth that is the moat and enterprises are waking up to the fact that they've been leaking it one api call at a time my prediction is this: data ownership is going to absolutely matter in the world we're going into and whoever's building the infrastructure for it is going to have a very good decade.

every question in this clip is an ownership question, especially data because when everyone has access to the same intelligence, the only input that separates your business from the next one is the data you own your data is decades of decisions, customers, mistakes, and edge cases that exist nowhere else on earth that is the moat and enterprises are waking up to the fact that they've been leaking it one api call at a time my prediction is this: data ownership is going to absolutely matter in the world we're going into and whoever's building the infrastructure for it is going to have a very good decade.

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13,805 views • 1 month ago

Larry Ellison—owner of Oracle, CBS, and now TikTok—tells Tony Blair about his plan to use digital ID to "unify" all data on each country's citizens "so it can be consumed and used by" his AI models. "We have to take all of this data... and move it into a single, if you will, unified data platform." "When we want to ask a question, we've provided that AI model with all the data they need to understand our country." "We need to unify all of the national data, put it into a database where it's easily consumable by the AI model, and then ask whatever question you like."

Larry Ellison—owner of Oracle, CBS, and now TikTok—tells Tony Blair about his plan to use digital ID to "unify" all data on each country's citizens "so it can be consumed and used by" his AI models. "We have to take all of this data... and move it into a single, if you will, unified data platform." "When we want to ask a question, we've provided that AI model with all the data they need to understand our country." "We need to unify all of the national data, put it into a database where it's easily consumable by the AI model, and then ask whatever question you like."

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144,618 views • 7 months ago

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54,964 views • 4 months ago

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girish

459,443 views • 2 months ago

Gabbit Robotics co-founder Nicole Mattero on why the next AI winners won't fight over your screen, they'll fight to get closer to you: She kicks things off with what she admits is a hot take: "My hot take is that hardware is the only moat going forward because anyone's going to be able to spin up a model and make it really good and really cheap." Her logic is simple. Once a strong model is cheap and easy for anyone to build, the model alone can't set you apart. So what actually protects you? "Where does that leave you? Basically companies that have tactile modes such as hardware are the only ones that actually survive." Hardware, though, is only one piece of her argument. The second piece is data: "The models that win in the long run are the ones where private data is their [moat]." From there, Mattero ties the two together. Hardware gives a company one moat. The ability to gather unique personal data gives it another. Put both in place and the edge starts to multiply: "When you have a company that has hardware as a [moat], but then B is able to collect really unique personal data, that also becomes a [moat]." And that, she says, is the reason so many foundation model companies are reaching beyond the screen and into the physical world: "That's why I think a lot of these foundation models are like, let's get something in the home or on the person. It gives them an edge on both fronts."

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Big Brain AI

19,195 views • 2 months ago

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Mario Nawfal

88,154 views • 8 months ago

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16,317 views • 1 month ago

Data for the Real World Diana & Austin Tindle AI has become superhuman at code, language, and images because it has enormous amounts of data to learn from. But our understanding of the physical world is still limited by sparse sensors and models built largely on intuition. Cheaper sensors and better foundation models could unlock entirely new datasets for energy, agriculture, logistics, construction, and the climate. Once you can accurately model the physical world, you can begin to control it.

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