Welcome to the world of venture capitalism. It's all "come on, guy! This is the next thing! Trust me bro!"
But by that token energy is the possibility collusion and cooperation within the industry, to front these technologies in board rooms and to shareholders. The problem is the question of the how and why. We can compare the current AI boom with the crypto boom.
The crypto boom just made NVIDIA more exploitative and fronted scams, grifts and rugpulls in the form of smart contracts and NFTs.
Everyone pretty much abandoned it, like in the gaming industry, because being associated with crypto was tantamount to being declared a plague bearer.
Then we see NPUs being integrated into SoC's by Intel, AMD, Apple, etc, platforms like Hugging face, frameworks like pytorch.
Sure, there's a crapton of illegal data harvesting and new swathes of content farms, as well as the premonition of mass layoffs in the future. But all these things are strictly speaking speculation.
I personally think that some of the moves being made to distribute AI processing is good, because it is far better to having access to AI processing from within the SoC of your device, rather than being locked to the GPU market. But the question still remains.
Will localised SLM's, LLM's and stable diffusion really take off? Or will these NPU's be gangrenous limbs come the next decade? Will we all have to bend over to our AGI overlords? Only time will tell.