The first route to a durable lead, in which no rival has what the leader has. The record since GPT-4 runs against it. Chapter 1.
From The AI Compute Race. Read the book
The book uses this term in a sense of its own.
Where the book uses it
- Chapter 1 — The Stakes
What the race is for: the belief that a lead in AI can compound into a lasting advantage, how long such leads have actually lasted, and what a trillion dollars a year is being bet against.
Also discussed in
- Dated test Chapters 1 and 12, the first route
- Dated test Chapters 1 and 12, the wager
Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Exclusivity of the model.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/exclusivity-of-the-model (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-exclusivity-of-the-model-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Exclusivity of the model}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/exclusivity-of-the-model},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}