As America approaches its 250th birthday, Alan Shimel reflects on the next great infrastructure build already underway: the Intelligence Grid.

In this episode of Shimmy Says, Alan looks at America’s history of railroads, electrification, highways, telecom, the internet and cloud, and argues that AI is now becoming the next major infrastructure layer.

The question is not just who builds it. The bigger question is who gets to build on top of it.

Alan explores what AI means for freedom, open source, access, competition, model choice, interoperability and the future of opportunity in America’s next 250 years.