A year ago, most people believed AI would be a simple competition: Build the smartest model → Get the most users → Win the market. But something unexpected happened. Companies started releasing models that were incredibly powerful. GPT. Claude. Gemini. Llama. Mistral. DeepSeek. And suddenly, intelligence stopped being the biggest differentiator. Today, we're entering a new phase of the AI era: The AI race is becoming a distribution race. And that changes everything for startups, developers, product teams, marketers, and IT consultants. Why Better AI Isn't Enough Anymore Imagine creating the world's smartest AI model. It solves problems faster. It writes cleaner code. It generates better designs. It reasons more accurately. But nobody uses it. Meanwhile, another company ships a slightly less capable model inside products people already use every day. Which one wins? History gives us the answer. The best technology doesn't always dominate. VHS beat Betamax. Android became larger than many competitors.…