In every technological wave, there is a phase when scarcity is mistaken for strategy. The early web had its “walled gardens,” when portals such as AOL and MSN believed exclusivity would preserve user value. Cable television clung to proprietary networks long after audiences had moved online. Even music labels, faced with the rise of Napster, thought restricting access would protect value. It never did. The gravity of technology has always pulled toward openness, interoperability, and scale....

Meta’s potential $10B investment in Scale AI marks a shift in AI priorities—from model size to data quality. As LVMs demand deeper video context, ethically sourced, annotated datasets are becoming the real competitive edge. With Asia rising as a structured data hub and new compliance layers like copyright, consent, and provenance gaining traction, the future of AI will be shaped not by compute—but by who controls the data.

Not all video is AI-ready. Clairva helps creators and media owners transform existing content, like tutorials, interviews, and demos, into structured, licensed datasets for multimodal AI. From rights management to transcription, scene tagging, and cultural context, we handle the complexity so your content powers the next generation of smart, inclusive AI. The data that shapes AI can start with you.