{"product_id":"ai-monopoly-strategic-advantage-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence-9798196767388","title":"AI Monopoly: Strategic Advantage in the Age of Artificial Intelligence","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sotiris Spyrou\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Economics - Microeconomics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn one week of January 2025, three events rewrote the AI competitive narrative. Project Stargate. The DeepSeek-R1 release. Nvidia's largest single-day market-capitalisation loss in history. Three days, three theses about where the moats in AI competition actually sit, each demonstrated in real time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAI Monopoly is for the founder building a defensible AI business and the investor diligencing one. It is not a book about whether AI will reshape industries - that question is closed. It is a book about which kinds of position survive the next eighteen months and which do not. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFourteen chapters across four parts plus a closer: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e- Foundations\u003c\/b\u003e - why traditional moats fail in AI, the four currencies that replace them, what an intelligent moat looks like\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e- Building and defending\u003c\/b\u003e - the defensible AI stack, data strategy, ecosystem capture, defence in depth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e- Challenges and headwinds \u003c\/b\u003e- open versus closed, regulation as moat and minefield, the limits of scale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e- The future \u003c\/b\u003e- human capital, geopolitical fragmentation, ethical positioning as competitive advantage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e- A ninety-day moat-build-and-assess programme\u003c\/b\u003e - separate versions for operators and investors \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eReal cases throughout: \u003c\/b\u003e Tesla's data flywheel, Adobe's Firefly position, GitHub Copilot, Cursor \/ Anysphere, the OpenAI \/ Microsoft restructuring, Anthropic's enterprise growth, Mistral's European positioning, Maersk's logistics AI. Failure cases too: Stability AI, Cohere's commercial trajectory, the vertical-AI 2023 cohort, the Adept \/ Inflection \/ Character pattern, Stack Overflow's surface erosion. The book engages with what does not work in AI competition, not only what does. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFive working appendices: \u003c\/b\u003e the intelligent-moat assessment framework, strategic planning templates including a term-sheet diligence checklist and a board-level moat dashboard, a regulatory positioning matrix, case-study analysis methodology, and a brief on antitrust risk for operators pursuing aggressive moat-building strategies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor founders signing term sheets and investors writing them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSotiris Spyrou advises boards, founders, and investors on AI strategy.","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47887995273367,"sku":"9798196767388","price":1919.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798196767388.webp?v=1781162828","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/ai-monopoly-strategic-advantage-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence-9798196767388","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}