# kaal:claim:5095633-009

**Claim.** The high cost of processing colossal datasets confines frontier AI innovation to a small number of well-resourced institutions.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- applies where model development requires processing very large datasets

**Source quote.**

> the high costs associated with processing colossal datasets restrict such innovation to a handful of well-resourced institutions.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Artificial Intelligence The Final Frontier* (2025), 2. Limitations of AI Development, page 3

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Artificial Intelligence The Final Frontier (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5095633

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**Failure mode.** compute cost concentration  (family: inequality-and-access-divide)

**Topics.** ai-and-agents

**Keywords.** compute-costs, concentration, ai-democratization, resource-divide

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