Last week i mentioned the key things to secure in order to build an AI superpower:

1.	Dense energy sources for compute and cooling
2.	Global supply chains to make chips
3.	Large army of engineers (or LLMs) to build software standards
4.	Efficient systems for managing capital formation
5.	Excelling at large-scale data gathering

Now what's the only technology that innovates on capital formation (4) and large-scale coordination to crowdsource data (5)? Crypto. 

Creating AI means synthesizing large amounts of data by melting GPUs, and since we did a first pass on all easily accessible raw data, now we must find data for the long tail, edge cases, alignment, bias removal, deep vertical expertise, subcultures, etc. 

The 2020 article by Ali Yahya on the a16z blog is still highly relevant  and details the path ahead