Millions of dollars paid to AI providers, where was that money going before?

"They may work super hard, you know, spend tens of millions, hundreds of millions of someday billions of dollars on a single problem, right? That's really valuable. But we see a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water and people buy it from us um on a meter and use it for whatever they want to use it for."

Do you know where that money was going before AI... you... us... remember, the end goal is to paid less or not pay you if you use your mind, your intelligence to work...