AI race cartoon: leaders call to 'end the race' as open source catches up fast
bibryam · x · 2026-10-18
A satirical cartoon circulating in the AI community depicts the model race as a track meet: OpenAI and Anthropic runners shout 'let's end the race now' mid-competition, Meta turns around to pitch 'Have you tried Muse?', while the DeepSeek/Mistral/Qwen/Phi pack runs under a banner reading 'Open Source Catching Up Fast.' A trailing Grok mutters 'Let's just end the race... for safety?' — poking fun at safety rhetoric masking competitive interests.
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