AI Companies tremble as anyone with the API can distill their models.
Open source zealots gonna zealot. But yeah maybe the core LLM is hard to monetize and it will go the way of Linux and Chrome with a bunch of open source models and platforms building profitable ecosystems on top of them.

AI Companies Tremble as They Realize It's Easy for Competitors to Steal Their Super-Expensive Work for Pennies on the Dollar
DeepSeek demonstrated that it's possible to create top-tier AI at a tiny fraction of the cost of what outfits like OpenAI have been spending.