Gary Marcus says LLMs still offer no enduring advantage, only a costly leapfrog race
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-07-23
Gary Marcus revisits his long-running argument that LLMs do not create an “enduring advantage.”
He says the world would look different if more people had taken that warning seriously, implying the industry is headed toward a costly leapfrog cycle where any lead lasts only months.
This is less about a specific model and more about the strategic economics of the LLM race.
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