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When Building Is Easy, Distribution Is the Moat: Who Sells the AI-Software Flood

Special report, July 19, 2026. Brought to you by SignalDeck.live.

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Jul 19, 2026
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The wrinkle

Yesterday’s piece, The Cheap-Model Winners, mapped who profits when AI models get cheap and everyone can self-host: the clouds, the data and inference infrastructure, the app-software franchises, and the silicon underneath. This is the follow-up it promised, because one angle turned out big enough to stand on its own.

Here is the wrinkle: AI i…

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