Blogger argues incentives, not benchmarks, decide the AI race — and backs OpenAI
VraserX · x · 2026-10-02
VraserX argues the AI race hinges on incentives rather than raw model intelligence: Anthropic is increasingly enterprise-first, Google and Meta built ad-based empires, while OpenAI's core product is the AI itself and its success depends on people actually wanting to use it. That alignment, he says, matters more than any benchmark — which is why he's still rooting for OpenAI.
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