I’m quite immune to hype, and AI is obviously the big topic of 2024 and beyond (…)

The reality is that 3D printing gets only a tiny fraction of global AI resources.

AI development requires enormous investments: data, energy, computing power, cooling infrastructure, and those resources are currently focused on much larger markets like video, image generation, text, and customer-service automation.

Compared to those industries, 3D printing is still very small, which limits how much custom AI development can realistically be done for it.

This situation reminds me of why it took so long for good software to emerge in 3D printing in the first place.

Back in 2015, we already knew the problem: the best software engineers were going to mobile, web, and big tech, not to additive manufacturing. The same thing is happening now with AI.

The technology is being used in 3D printing, but mostly in limited, adapted ways, not through tools built specifically for the needs of additive manufacturing.

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