Rand兰德：2024年人工智能基础模型市场自然垄断状况评估报告（英文版）

Because of the wide variety of tasks they can be used to perform, foundation models—a class of artificial intelligence (AI) models trained on large and diverse datasets and capable of performing many tasks—have the potential to have a large effect in shaping the economic and social effects of AI. The authors of this report examine the economic and production attributes of pre-trained foundation models to answer a single question: Is the market for foundation models a natural monopoly? To asse