Eventually the top labs are going to collude and simply not release their best models to the public (if they aren't doing that already).

Then the next tier of labs will be even closer to the frontier than present, and the top labs will lose their pricing power

	▲	xlbuttplug2 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		So far the next tier has only demonstrated that they can catch up to, but not necessarily leapfrog, what the top tier has put out publicly. I suspect the top labs will come up with a business model that doesn't involve handing out their secret sauce for everyone else to reverse engineer. Perhaps restricting their top models to select high paying government/enterprise contracts. Or maybe a bespoke "describe the problem and we'll solve it for you" type service.