OpenAI is currently the best in some major criterias, but not all. Gemini has much larger context window, for example.
And behemoths like Google/Meta/Apple can remain irrational with their AI spending longer than OpenAI can remain solvent. Unless Microsoft steps in, which they already did, kind of.
I guess the big problem with AI/ML of the LLM type is that the data and compute is the gold, or fuel if you will. How does one commercialize a product in the long term, when each iteration becomes magnitudes more expensive than the previous, and the previous products become almost worthless within 12 months.
Oh yeah, keep growing your number of subscribers. But that also has a natural limit.
Maybe at some point, these AI models will be so integrated and omnipresent in everyone's daily like that some kind of oligopoly or monopoly arises, and they can leverage that.
This is most Hollywood productions in a nutshell
Doesn't seem too outrageous