Potentially #AGI🌟 Some thoughts on today's RNS. Google and Bytedance are the respective pinnacles of AI development across Amerca and China. There is a barrier to entry getting into these schemes, but more importantly, Potentially is sending a strong signal that the company is building access to the right model for the right task, regardless of origin. For years, the US and China have tried to wall each other off from AI. China's Great Firewall blocks Google outright. Beijing has long policed its own 'platform' stocks. And Washington has done the same in reverse. Congress passed a law in 2024 forcing ByteDance to divest TikTok's US operations or face a ban. The Supreme Court upheld that law in January 2025. It still took a full year of extensions, threats and negotiations before the deal actually closed; TikTok USA finally spun off in January 2026 into a joint venture led by Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX, with ByteDance kept to a minority stake. You'd think that kind of wall would slow AI down. It hasn't. It's just rerouted the money. Qualcomm signed a chip supply deal with ByteDance in May to power its AI data centers, structured carefully to stay inside export control limits, but still moving serious compute into Chinese AI infrastructure. On the other side, Google committed up to a million TPUs to Anthropic in a deal worth tens of billions. Two different empires, both racing to lock down infrastructure, neither one able to fully seal itself off from the other's ecosystem. And now Stripe is in talks to buy OpenRouter for $10 billion, a company that doesn't build a single model, but routes between hundreds of them. Potentially AI (AIM: AGI) just picked up Google Cloud credits through Google for Startups and discounted model access through ByteDance's BytePlus Partner Network. Potentially's consumer model is close to launch, and can reportedly do things OpenRouter can't: Consumer-first, not developer-first. It's built for ordinary users and small businesses, not the few people comfortable with an API key and config file. Ownership over access. Protects and lets you monetise what you create, rather than just generating content and handing the platform your data for free. Custom 'Stars'. Brands and IP owners can commission their own bespoke AI models trained on their own style, tone of voice or archive, licensable on their own terms. Two-sided Marketplace (the Universe). Creators can list and sell their own Stars back into the platform, with Potentially taking a commission at every transaction. Full modality coverage bundled together. Text, image, audio and video in one subscription, rather than fragmented routing. Composition, not invention. Nobody has combined consumer app + IP protection + marketplace into a single product. Yet. Governments can wall off platforms. Companies can't afford to. And nobody can wall off capital, or the incentive to route around friction. Tech is like water. It always finds a way.