Will Cloud GPU Providers Become Agent Infrastructure?

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The author speculates on whether cloud GPU providers will become the underlying infrastructure for AI agents, drawing parallels to the telecom industry's evolution and questioning market consolidation.

I've been pondering this question. Will cloud service providers eventually become the underlying infrastructure for agents, just like telecom operators? I've always felt that local LLMs will eventually become a niche hobby, like ham radio. Think about the development of the telecom industry. In the 1990s, operators were the product themselves. You carefully selected your operator, understanding their pricing and coverage. Later, as mobile phone performance improved and supported more applications, operators' presence diminished, they lost pricing power, and were eventually replaced by internet giants. Look at the current situation. Model providers undoubtedly dominate; they own both the models and the platforms, like AT&T in its heyday. Cloud service providers are also transforming, developing their own models and deploying them on their own platforms. There are also GPU-native clouds that started with GPU computing and gradually expanded into agent deployment, model catalogs, and runtime operations. They don't develop models; they only provide GPUs and deployment services. Perhaps after the data center bubble bursts, these companies will go bankrupt, merge, and reorganize; perhaps not, and they'll end up like the fragmented app stores on Android in The real question is: will the agent cloud platform eventually concentrate in the hands of two or three winners, like the telecom industry, or will it remain fragmented like the early app stores? Will the model labs give up the fight for platform dominance, or will they continue to strive for it? I'm curious about your thoughts.
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