The difference about the rise of .AI and the rise of .SI
.AI extension gained popularity as AI was exploding, so you had a ton of new AI startups coming in to buy up .AI domain names, with big startup capital.
With SI, there is no new startup wave, it's still the same AI landscape, which seems to be slowing down a bit as we go into 2027.
The main buyers of .SI are other domainers, some companies buying for brand protection and even fewer actual startups launching on .SI
No new industry has been created, just a renaming that only a handful of the big government contractor AI companies will change to in order to maintain those gov contracts.
All the AI tools and products out there people use are still going to be called AI this or AI that. And all the new AI startups in 2027 will be branded as AI, because thats what the people call it, AI