Before AWS, every company ran its own servers. The integration cost was identical everywhere, the advantage was zero, and then one API made it a utility. AI infrastructure in 2026 is the same chaos, one layer up. Hundreds of models, dozens of APIs, no common settlement.

The Amazon moment for AI is not just a better API. It is the collapse of interface, market, and settlement into one layer, where models, data, and compute are purchasable in one request, settled onchain, with no accounts required.

We wrote about why this moment is overdue and what open settlement unlocks that a billing page never could.

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