Most would bet on Dow or Samsung. They are wrong. **Ajinomoto** produces over 90% of the world’s Ajinomoto Build-up Film (ABF). The world knows them for MSG and frozen dumplings. The physical brain of an AI cannot communicate with its body without a food company’s chemical side-hustle. This dominance is a historical accident. Back in the 1970s, Ajinomoto needed a way to monetize the chemical byproducts of fermenting amino acids for food additives.