Gavin Baker says AI will stay multi-model, and open source is vital to U.S. competitiveness
GavinSBaker · x · 2026-07-26
Gavin Baker argues that AI will almost certainly remain a multi-model ecosystem, with closed frontier models coexisting alongside open source.
He says open source is essential to American competitiveness, and warns that a world dominated by only a few models would be dystopian, riskier, and likely to worsen inequality.
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