Closed Source AI released their best model: GPT-6 Astra. That same week a Chinese Open-Source model was at 98% of its capability, but at 1% of the cost.

There’s a famous quote from the Economist John Maynard Keynes: “The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.” I wonder what he’d make of the current AI stock bubble.

You know what other advantage open-source AI has? No enshittification. OpenAi has already started selling ads alongside ChatGPT responses. We all know how that led Google to destroy the best search engine ever. No thanks.

I think all this matters. A world where most AI is decentralized & open source, sounds far better than the various visions of dystopia Big Tech offers.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash achieved 98% of top-ranked GPT-6 Astra’s average score, at just 1% of its average cost