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spir-14088	van der Vlist, Fernando N.; Helmond, Anne; Luitse, Dieuwertje M. R.; Rieder, Bernhard; Hind, Sam; Kanderske, Max	THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AI AS PLATFORM: INFRASTRUCTURES, POWER, AND THE AI INDUSTRY	2025.0	22	.pdf	application/pdf	7746	474	44	These resources ‘convene’ third-party businesses and developers to build an ecosystem of new products and services around cloud AI infrastructure platform providers. Their visions range from Meta’s ‘future of connection in the metaverse’ (Meta), Microsoft’s vision for AI in the enterprise (Microsoft), Amazon’s ambition of ‘AI becoming the new electricity in our homes’ (Zeghari, 2023), to Google’s portrayal of AI as ‘a foundational and transformational technology that will provide compelling and helpful benefits to people and society through its capacity to assist, complement, empower, and inspire people in almost every field of human endeavor’ (Google AI).	cache/spir-14088.pdf	txt/spir-14088.txt