The Glass Wall: Why Open Source Finally Caught Up to Big AI
By Marcus Osei · 7 min read
AI
The air in the Menlo Park press room was thick with the kind of performative humility only a multi-billionaire can truly pull off.
AI
It was a moment of profound leveling.
AI
To understand how we got here, you have to look back at the frantic post-ChatGPT scramble of 2023.
AI
Then things changed.
AI
We are now seeing what I call 'The Great Catch-Up.' When I spoke to a lead engineer at a major cloud provider last month, he put it bluntly: "The secret sauce isn't a secret anymore.