Strip Out the University and This Is a Template

I ended my profile of UC Irvine’s ZotGPT with a line I have not stopped thinking about since I wrote it: strip out the university and this is a template. I want to spend a whole post on that sentence, because I buried the most useful part of the story under a lot of admiring detail about a specific campus, and the specific campus is not the point. The point is that a public university with a fraction of a Fortune 500’s budget currently holds a better position in the AI market than almost every enterprise I profile, and it got there by making four decisions that have nothing to do with being a