[gmerc]

Presumably ...? It's the business model. Subsidize until the competition is down to 2, then extract. That's the entire Valley. Which is why the Chinese and Open Source need to be pushed from the market for the whole banana to work

[gck1]

Yup. The entire business models of Google (or rather, Gemini), OpenAI and Anthropic stand on open source models not being as good.

They're literally all just a single open source model away from effectively becoming trillion dollar paperweights.