There are multiple pathways here. Company 1 gets a bucket of investment, makes a model, goes belly up. Company 2 buys Company 1's model in a fire sale. Compan

There are multiple pathways here. Company 1 gets a bucket of investment, makes a model, goes belly up. Company 2 buys Company 1's model in a fire sale. Company 3 uses some open source model that's basically as good as any other and just makes the prettiest wrapper. Company 4 resells access to other company's models at a discount, similar to companies reselling cellular service.