As the AI battle is getting concentrated amongst few IT or we may call AI behemoths, the AI acrimony is getting sharper by the day. Never in human history has the progression of technology been so hotly debated. The contours were known and also the vertical and extension of that particular technology. Even in the case of general-purpose technologies we knew what it is going to do, the way it can grow, and what shape it would take at best, if all resources were provided for it. Though AI safely ensconced at the backend of every IT usage and growing by the day, yet it remains as intriguing as ever for the common user and even practitioners.
The AI contrary to anything in the past is a vision, philosophy of tech, mental construct, theory, deep research, practice, product development, business model, job decimation exercise, uncontrolled or a future of abundance, all rolled into one. That being the case and the taste of this technology known to the world, each company of AI eminence, wants to hog the public and commercial limelight, while being the pioneers. Given the complexity of the AI ecosystem, it is necessary for the IT behemoth and its founder / CEO to tilt the tech / world thought process to their side. It would be half the victory. The outlier’s challenge also remains as serious as ever.
AI acrimony as a natural consequence of this situation can be seen all around the place. The Meta, Scale AI and Google imbroglio. In June 2025 announced a $14-14.8 billion investment to acquire a 49% non-voting stake in Scale AI. This presumably sidesteps antitrust scrutiny. Scale’s 28 year old CEO Alexandr Wang joined Meta to lead its new “superintelligence” research lab, reporting directly to Mark Zuckerberg, while being on the Scale’s board. In Meta’s AGI vision, it sees Scale’s data and RLHF pipelines as critical infrastructure. And now the twist. Following Meta’s involvement, Google, previously Scale’s largest customer, has already ended its partnership.
As per industry experts it can be interpreted as Google’s response to Meta gaining influence over key data-labelling provider relied on by multiple labs. Whilst this is on, another acrimony is shaping on some facets of the future of AI. At VivaTech in Paris, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei indicated massive entry level job cuts; up to 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs could be eliminated within five years, likely to drive the US unemployment rate from 10% to 20% besides various other things. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang refuted saying Anthropic CEO was wrong and on almost everything he said about AI. Huang dismissed the claim of 50% entry level jobs elimination, advocating for transparent AI development. “While acknowledging job transformation, Huang emphasized AI’s potential to create new opportunities and boost productivity.”
SWAYING THE GULLIBLE MINDS TO YOUR THOUGHTS IN A NEBULOUS AI WORLD CAN HAVE GREAT INFLUENCE ON THE WAY AI NAVIGATES FURTHER.
Sanjay Sahay
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