EcosystemSUMMIT & RESEARCH
DEFINITION USED IN THIS COLLECTION

Upstream dependence.

Reliance on providers or components outside the deployer's control.

What it includes

Reliance on providers or components outside the deployer's control.

Where the boundary lies

Use of an external interchangeable component need not establish lock-in.

How speakers put it.

The definition above is used to organise this collection. The passages below show how the idea appears in discussion.

Evidence in practice.

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Analyst applies. The speaker anticipates cheaper capable personal hardware alongside uncertain frontier-model economics.

Qualifies the boundary. Use of an external interchangeable component need not establish lock-in.

Differences and limits.

No event-wide agreement is inferred from coding. Compare the attributed examples and boundaries; co-occurrence is not evidence of agreement.

Use of an external interchangeable component need not establish lock-in.

Related concepts.

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Codes that occur in the same passages

Co-occurrence describes coding, not equivalence, causation or agreement.