Debate: the frontier may never be public, with powerful hidden internal models likely now
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-09
Responding to the claim that agent swarms will cost $1.50 within a year and usher in an unprecedented Enlightenment, @abhishekn argues the frontier is becoming permanently inaccessible to the public — and if open models rely on distillation, the open ecosystem's ceiling is capped too. He thinks there's a good chance powerful internal models exist right now that the public will never see.
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