Insights from the David Shapiro episode “"The window has closed"”, published June 15, 2026.
As AI giants like OpenAI and Anthropic go public, the industry shifts from speculative startups to normalized market utilities. Selling raw AI tokens is becoming a commodity business with plummeting margins, forcing companies to pivot toward building ecosystems and specialized software tools to survive the inevitable commoditization of intelligence.
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Market Strategy, IPO, SaaS, Economics