And where would you put "billions of people now have access to better translations on demand"?

People talk about business as though only the owners of the business benefit. Everybody else pays the price. But aren't the main beneficiaries all the people using these services?

I think a real life tower of Babel is pretty cool. God destroyed it because he was afraid of a unified humanity.

Well ideally they don't, and when the bubble eventually pops and they go bankrupt we're left with a wide set of useful local models and cheap surplus hardware to run them ourselves. Maybe I'm being overly optimistic.