Abstract The AI-Induced Opportunity Inflation Theory proposes that artificial intelligence dramatically expands entrepreneurial opportunity recognition capacity, generating more venture ideas than markets, founders, and execution systems can absorb. Rather than treating opportunity recognition as a scarce cognitive event, the theory argues that AI shifts the entrepreneurial problem from creation to selection. Classical opportunity identification research emphasizes entreprene

Abstract The AI-Leveraged Entrepreneurial Asymmetry Theory argues that artificial intelligence does more than improve efficiency inside firms. It creates structural asymmetries that can permanently distort competitive balance between ventures of similar size, age, and capital base. Building on the logic of the Virgen Framework, which was introduced in 2026 as a model for AI-driven venture creation and scaling, this paper reframes AI as a source of asymmetry generation rather