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What if tokens are not the giant labs' end game?

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Everyone talks about how inference isn’t profitable enough and how, eventually, open-source models will be just as good as frontier models at a fraction of the cost. But what if, at some point, OpenAI or Anthropic simply stops releasing its best models publicly and develops oracle-level intelligenc…

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  1. 2026-09-02 15:07 · r/artificial
    What if tokens are not the giant labs' end game?

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