And there will be lots of open source models that have barely been optimized (why make an open source model more efficient when you're raising capital based on the promise of outspending everyone else in order to dominate a world of ubiquitous, pluripotent, winner-take-all centralized AI?):
https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/16/post-ai-ai/#productive-residue
That's a situation not unlike the post-dotcom bubble of the early 2000s.
16/
Cory Doctorow
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