They're salting the earth / destroying the moat for OpenAI and Anthropic, and to a lesser extent, for Google. Basically, now pretty much anyone can do "sufficie

They're salting the earth / destroying the moat for OpenAI and Anthropic, and to a lesser extent, for Google. Basically, now pretty much anyone can do "sufficient" AI right in their garage. I use Mistral Large, and most of the time its output is easily on par with GPT4, with total privacy. This destruction of the moat prevents the future where e.g. OpenAI becomes your interface to the internet, recommendations, shopping, social media, news, etc. The moment you start doing something that's clearly valuable, 10 other companies pop up and destroy your potential future margin. They are trying the "internet search" part of that, because that needs a search index, and that's not something that's easy to do. We're lucky that Google blew its AI lead so badly - it _could_ realistically become all of the above, if it wasn't so badly mismanaged.