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The Model Is Not the Moat — Closelook Heresy XI

Own Your Own Weights, Own Your Own Harness — and why the frontier labs may become suppliers, not platforms.

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Thomas Look
Jul 04, 2026
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Two of the largest compute owners on Earth just became landlords. The tell isn’t that scarcity is ending — it’s that owning the biggest model and the biggest cluster was never the moat. The moat is the harness bred around the model.

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