Not participating in the war is the only true way to win the war, nothing new.

And in this particular war, it's even worse, the "winner" will actually just be the "biggest loser", contrarily to a traditional war.

It seems to be Blu-ray vs HD-DVD again. Luckily for me, I made the right decision and got out of the shiny round disc business as that battle was raging all around me having been in the DVD programming business for 8 years or so. This battle of LLMs is interesting to watch from the sidelines as I have nothing to do with them. Not sure this will end with one LLM to rule them all while the others fade away. People can use the one they prefer and not really impact others.

>Not participating in the war is the only true way to win the war, nothing new.

Really not true both in real wars and in tech wars. There's no evidence to support this claim.

Android only exists as the dominant mobile platform because it went to full scale war with Apple when the iPhone launched. Those that didn't take part and came after the battle have like <1% market share and Apple and Google are printing money from the cut to their app stores.

Apple doesn't take part in the AI race because whichever AI wins the war in the end, they'll have to be on their Appstore to reach the users, so Apple wins regardless due to their Appstore monopoly. AIs are no threat to their phone, laptops and Appstore business.

But Google can't afford not to take part in this race because AIs are a threat to their search and ads business.

Same with real wars, US is the world superpower because it got involved in WW2 even though it didn't have to be. Same with Russia and Ukraine, provided they don't wipe each other out scorched earth, their militaries will be the most advanced on the planet on modern drone warfare they invented after the war is over, and every other military on the planet will be paying them for their gear and expertise, which they already are.