One of the most important lessons from my conversation with the Co-Founder of Hugging Face and the CEO of Bright Data 🦅 The model is not the moat anymore. Switching between frontier models now takes 30 seconds. Thomas literally said he took his entire skill set, handed it to a new model and said “make these yours” — and it worked instantly. So if it’s not the model, where does the moat actually live in 2026? Here’s what they said: → Be the closest thing to the user’s intent. Cursor owns the intent layer. Claude owns the conversation layer. Whoever sits between the human and the action wins. → Own the context. If you have proprietary data about what your users are doing and you’re smart enough to serve it to your AI in the right form — that compounds. → Real-time data is becoming more important than fine-tuning. Not because fine-tuning doesn’t work — but because the world changes faster than your training runs. → MCP is great for prototyping. But when data becomes critical infr...