> "Greater access to the code behind generative models is fueling innovation. But if top companies get spooked, they could close up shop." This has already hap

> "Greater access to the code behind generative models is fueling innovation. But if top companies get spooked, they could close up shop." This has already happened. They've already closed up shop. None of the free ones are as good as GPT-4 or Claude or even GPT-3.5. The free small models will stay and will keep being refined but they will stay behind the proprietary ones powered by hundreds of millions of dollars of pre-training.