What If Frontier Labs Stop Releasing Models and Keep 'Oracle' AI In-House? Reddit Debates
IDefendWaffles · reddit · 2026-09-02
A Reddit user challenges the 'inference isn't profitable' narrative: OpenAI or Anthropic could simply stop releasing their best models, develop oracle-level intelligence in-house, and sell access for billions in R&D value across finance, drug discovery, and engineering. The post argues inference profitability would become irrelevant, open-source models would lose their distillation source, and knowledge generation would concentrate in a few companies.
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