🎯“The people who invented refrigeration made some money, but most of the money was made by Coca-Cola, who used refrigera…

Rohan Paul Twitter · Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) · 2026-05-31

Chamath Palihapitiya draws an analogy between LLMs and refrigeration technology, arguing that the largest AI fortunes will be made by companies that apply LLMs to build products, not those that build the models.

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LLM Commoditization and the Private Data Moat Debate

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Topics: ai-business-strategyllm-applicationsai-moatsllm-commoditization

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LLMs are enabling infrastructure analogous to refrigeration — valuable but not the primary profit center.
The dominant AI business opportunity lies in applying LLMs to build products, not in building the models themselves.
The company that will use LLMs to build an outsized business — the 'Coca-Cola of AI' — has not yet emerged.

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The people who invented refrigeration made some money, but most of the money was made by Coca-Cola, who used refrigeration to build an empire. LLMs are like refrigeration & the Coca-Cola has yet to be built