This is truly depressing and most likely very true.

I do not see enough people discussing this and trying to position their businesses in a way to avoid destruction at the hands of the labs.

It’s really only an existential problem for pure-software businesses/developers.

There’s a good chance that the next step after open weight models is something that makes it easier to post-train existing models on new workloads without running an entire pipeline just for yourself. Somebody has to actually build it though.