AI Research · Forbes Council · October 2, 2026 · 6 min read
The Real AI Moat: Why Models Are Cheap But Data Orchestration Is Priceless
As frontier models commoditize and open-source alternatives catch up, owning raw models offers little defensibility. The true enterprise AI moat lies in continuous data orchestration, clean operational governance, domain-specific data pipelines, and high-fidelity contextual retrieval.…
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