Love this one! My immediate thought for a build: just a camera with on-device VLMs and LLMs. You could point it at a normal whiteboard (or a wall of sticky notes), and the model could interpret the handwriting, track the tokens, and sync the state digitally in real-time without needing any special "smart" hardware.
It feels like a much more flexible approach than an expensive proprietary whiteboard. Would a camera-only setup cover your use case?
I mean both, and in AI today, they’re deeply intertwined. The “capital game” isn’t just about money—it’s about access to compute, talent, and time. Whoever has the resources can experiment, iterate, and potentially uncover the next big architecture. That financial power naturally translates into influence—control over the market, narrative, and ecosystem. In practice, the investment game and the market ruler’s game often become the same thing.
With all due respect, AI is ultimately a capital game. World models aren’t where real B2B customer revenue comes from—at least compared to today’s LLMs; they’re mainly a better story for raising huge amounts of private capital. Hopefully they figure out how to build the next-gen AI architecture along the way.
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