Everyone in the open LLM community knew this was coming.
We didn’t know the exact timing, but OpenAI is completely stagnant, and it was coming this year or the next.
I don’t think the world still understands how screwed OpenAI is. It isn’t just that their moat is gone, it’s that, even with all that money, their models (for the size\investment) are objectively bad.
Everyone in the open LLM community knew this was coming.
We didn’t know the exact timing, but OpenAI is completely stagnant, and it was coming this year or the next.
I don’t think the world still understands how screwed OpenAI is. It isn’t just that their moat is gone, it’s that, even with all that money, their models (for the size\investment) are objectively bad.
And even as OpenAI struggles, they set fire to a lot of money in the process: https://www.notebookcheck.net/GPT-5-development-hits-major-setbacks-as-OpenAI-runs-out-of-training-data.937049.0.html