One-Person AI Companies Are the New Arbitrage

The Infrastructure Shift That Changes Everything Two years ago, building a production AI system required venture capital. You needed GPUs, orchestration layers, DevOps expertise, and teams of ML engineers just to ship something that competed with incumbents. That arbitrage is dead. Today's AI infrastructure commoditization—API-accessible models, serverless inference, multi-modal foundation models as utilities—has collapsed the barrier to entry. A solo founder with $500/month in API costs and a l