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Data is the New Water Not the New Oil

data and AI moats

March 28, 2025

If is going to replace humans in the workforce, and rewrite our software almost instantly, is our only advantage our data?

Is data the new oil?

No. Data can by replaced faster than software. Synthetic data has proven sufficient to train new foundational-level models at a fraction of the cost of traditional labeled training data and supervised fine-timing.

Data is the new water- crucial, not quite free, not not that hard to get.

However, "deployed intelligence" is the new oil. Active knowledge in your business that can generate new data and new revenue streams better than the competition.

There emerging model is the application layer built on top of agentic reasoning.

All successful GenAI is the ...