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One group is compounding leverage. The other is managing exposure. They don't end in the same place.

Throughput is up 6.5x, the review layer is not. That gap is structural, and the two strategies for handling it don't end in the same place.

Stripe pays $7B for the routing layer while Nvidia halves its OpenAI guarantee, the AI economy is real enough to trade on, not stable enough to backstop.

Qwen owns the infrastructure layer, ChatGPT is losing the attention layer. They're not the same competition, and the leverage has already moved.

The encryption holds, the ecosystem doesn't. Frontier guardrails mean nothing when weaker siblings carry the same trace format and a shorter combination.