The AI Box Is Coming—Build Your Own or Be Owned by Big Tech

The AI box era is here. Build your own for privacy and control—or let Big Tech own your digital life. The next 2 years will shape who controls your AI.

TL;DR: The AI boxes are coming. We can build our own or let Big Tech build them for us. Guess which one they’re betting on.

Remember when Richard Hendricks kept ranting about “The Box” and everyone thought he’d lost it? Well, turns out the crazy bastard was right. We just got the timeline wrong.

In HBO’s Silicon Valley, “The Box” represented the choice between decentralized platforms that empower users versus centralized hardware that locks them into corporate ecosystems.

The Box isn’t some magical compression algorithm. It’s edge AI hardware that can run the models that needed Google’s data centers two years ago. And it’s ...