We're almost five years into the whole GenAI thing and we're still relying on these guys to spoonfeed us incremental updates.

It's time for them to start focusing on open-weight models and efficiency. Otherwise there's just a layer of marketing hype and "will it do this?" that has to be cut through for evaluation of each and every release cycle.

Models are getting easier and easier to create. The money, if there's any here, is in the harness the user interfaces with, and the data centers running them.