What happens to AI if the bubble pops and OpenAI and Anthropic go bankrupt?
TameYour · reddit · 2026-09-26
A Reddit discussion explores a hypothetical: if OpenAI and Anthropic both went bankrupt, would AI development stall? Key questions raised include whether anyone else could sustain frontier-scale training, what happens to the licensing, hosting, and maintenance of open-sourced model weights, and how a bubble burst would ripple through the industry's pace of progress — highlighting how dependent the field is on massive funding and the role open-source plays as a safety net.
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