> But they would be outdated, right?

Outdated compared to what? In your counterfactual, VC funded agents don't exist anymore, no?

Your argument, if I understand it correctly, is that they might somehow go away entirely when VC funding dries up, when more realistically they'll probably at most become twice as expensive or regress half a year in performance.

> Outdated compared to what? In your counterfactual, VC funded agents don't exist anymore, no?

Outdated compared to reality / humans, their knowledge cutoff is a year further behind every year they don't get updates. Humans continuously expands their knowledge, the models needs to keep up with that.