AI Companies Adopt Failed 1960s Vacuum Tube Maintenance Model
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The Business Model That Failed In The 1960s Is At Play With Regulation-Loving AI Companies Today. That was the income model. Sell the machine once. Sell the tubes forever. Sell the cooling forever. Sell the raised floors, the massive air handlers, the power substations, the spare-parts logistics, and the trained men who knew how to pull a hot tube without getting burned. The computer was not the product. The continuous management of its frailty was the product.