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The recent advertisements on airport billboards are quite interesting——the one from Alibaba Cloud is enormous, with data showing it surpasses the combined total of the second to fourth places, truly leading by a wide margin. Not far away, I also saw Volcano Engine competing for advertising space.
Similarly, the AI advertisements are everywhere, but the approaches on both sides are completely different. Silicon Valley is a blooming scene, with model vendors, application developers, Agent frameworks, and toolchains—everyone can give it a try, making the ecosystem look very lively.
But the pattern of airport billboards in China reveals another reality: the entry threshold for AI has changed. It’s no longer about ideas or talent, but about computing power, cloud infrastructure, and enough financial endurance to keep burning. When high-end commercial positions are only contested by infrastructure players, the industry logic behind it becomes very clear—whoever controls the underlying computing power and cloud infrastructure holds the voice in this wave of AI.
Computing power has become the new moat, and the ability to spend money determines the discourse power. Small teams really can't keep up.
You can see it from airport advertising spaces—big companies are pouring heavy funds into securing positions. This round of AI is destined to be a game for the giants.
It feels like the space for innovation is getting smaller and smaller; everyone has to work for cloud service providers.
The ecosystem over in Silicon Valley is growing wildly, while here it has already become a rich people's game of infrastructure.
The essence of the capital game is still capital.
Burning money to gain influence—there's nothing wrong with that.
This is the current game rule: computing power is the new oil, whoever hoards wins
Even the bustling Silicon Valley ecosystem still relies on infrastructure, in plain terms, it still means paying cloud providers
It's already very straightforward on the Chinese side: capital-intensive businesses, how can retail investors and small teams play?
Thinking back, the crypto world is the same, isn't it ultimately the exchanges and big players who call the shots?
Alibaba Cloud's advertising scale is indeed outrageous, with data dominance right there
On the other hand, this is not very friendly to entrepreneurs, as the entry barrier has been raised significantly
It's quite ironic—innovation is all happening in Silicon Valley, while here we're focusing on infrastructure.
The era of computing power is here; if you have money and a card, you're the boss.