The only future where this happens is if little, non- infrastructure / specialized hardware models maintain functional parity with "throw more hardware at the p

The only future where this happens is if little, non- infrastructure / specialized hardware models maintain functional parity with "throw more hardware at the problem" big models. That seems... unlikely. And then we'll see the same evolution that built Google. Someone with the best algorithm leverages that into a revenue stream, then uses that revenue to buy hardware, then monetizes its userbase via advertisement, then uses that additional revenue to buy market share. I'm sure it'll make someone a ton of money, but it's not a future I'd like to live in (again). Diversity is strength.