“AI has provided ‘zero payoff’ to corporate America outside of the technology sector, according to Apollo Global Management Chief Economist Torsten Slok.” What Slok and many others are missing is that the massive boosts in software creation and reasoning are elemental, and can be extended across all knowledge work (work in front of a computer) and then across any work that requires intelligence over 5-10 years, and eventually manual labor and dexterity as it’s the software that’s holding back robots from being useful. Astra and upcoming robot foundation models will change this. Major tech firms don’t make big bets on fads and herding-they’re just the first to see the productivity boosts (revenue per employee sharply up) and this will extend to the Fortune 1000 over 5-10 years.