It's the smartest possible play. The leader always wants to be a monopoly. The distant runners up can catch up the most ground by playing nice, being open sour

It's the smartest possible play. The leader always wants to be a monopoly. The distant runners up can catch up the most ground by playing nice, being open source, and working with other companies to erode the market share that the leader wanted to lock away. I'm so glad to see this happening. I'm terrified of a single company winning all of AI. It's starting to look like this won't happen and that OpenAI is simply stretched too thin. If this pattern holds, OpenAI may wind up as a footnote. Their inability to open up and work with others means that competitors and would-be collaborators will choose the open alternatives. Meta can win that mindshare and be the friendly facilitator and rails that an entire ecosystem of business is built upon. OpenAI will never be that. They're not "open" enough.