If everyone can build frontier models, what's the end game for billions invested?
notadithyabhat · reddit · 2026-09-03
The poster observes that Meta, X, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Z.ai, Moonshot, DeepSeek and Alibaba are all within striking distance of each other — apparently anyone can build powerful models, so there seems to be no moat. With competition this fierce, already-falling prices will fall further. The thread asks: will AI become like the Internet, something that's just there? If AI is accessible to everyone, how do the billions invested bear fruit, and what does winning the AI race even mean?
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