Industry experts are debating whether building frontier AI models constitutes a sustainable business or merely a capital-intensive endeavor without durable competitive advantages. Austin Campbell argues that the sector may be characterized by continuous cash burn without establishing meaningful economic moats for developers. Conversely, Perkins contends that regulatory frameworks could eventually consolidate the market into a few scaled players. This perspective suggests that government oversight might inadvertently create barriers to entry that protect established firms, contrasting with the view that technological competition alone fails to generate lasting defensibility.