Day 1,914: amass, graft

But progress in ai is as much about having the right talent and a flourishing ecosystem as it is about amassing capital and computing power. Countries in Europe and the Middle East may find that the hard graft of cultivating ingenuity matters as much as buying in computer chips.

The breakthrough AI needs

Artwork of the day 
Amassiah
Stanisław_Szukalski
Date: 1947
Style: Art Deco
Genre: illustration

Word of the day 
amass: to get a large amount of something, especially money or information, by collecting it over a long period:
graft: work:

Quote of the day
“I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.”

― Terry Pratchett, Snuff