The last few weeks gave me a lot to sit with. I already believed the gap between normal people and the elite would widen over time. After the US government blocked Fable 5 and Mythos, I got my confirmation. We’re headed for a world where we run obsolete models while the elite already has AGI. I don’t think this is conspiracy talk. I think it’s what we see within 12 months, and OpenAI just confirmed it by releasing GPT-5.6 Sol and the rest of the family only to authorized companies, handpicked by the US government. I watch a lot of people worry about everything else, competing to cheer for one of these two frontier labs, drooling over every update. The point should be the opposite: build a deeper understanding of what ML and AI actually are, so you grasp the potential and use it in ways most people don’t. Instead we slop out one thing after another, chasing an imaginary fortune, because what you see on social today is survivorship bias. User X made 10k a month with their slopped startup, so I can too, never mind the millions of people who don’t make it. In my opinion the direction should be different. First, protect your data, your secrets, and your full independence from these big AI labs. “But Massi, without Opus 4.8 or GPT-5.5 I can’t slop together my build-in-public site xD.” You need far less than that. I’d bet 9 out of 10 people today can’t even use a frontier model to its full power, because they hand it work a six-month-old model already did fine. So start now. Invest in yourself and your future. Don’t let the prices keep climbing. Buy the GPUs and whatever else you need to run OSS and open-weight models as well as you can. I know it looks like a big or pointless expense, and people will tell you today’s hardware is obsolete in six months because the models keep getting heavier. Then look at what GLM 5.2, Kimi 2.6, and DeepSeek 4 already do, and you’ll see that what’s public right now is more than enough. One day you’ll thank me, when the labs you love so much have you running models that are 12 months old at 10x today’s cost, while the elite holds the world’s entire compute and the best models available, eating us alive. And your privacy. People now send everything to cloud models: secret keys, documents, photos. Remember that everything you’ve sent so far sits on their servers, and your data becomes the training set for their next models. But if you’re happy with that, still hoping to build the 10k-a-month SaaS and repeating like a parrot that hardware costs too much and those models aren’t frontier models, I have bad news. You’ll pay for it, and you’ll reach a point where it’s too late. I think governments will also try every trick to stop OSS model development. So one more thing: go deep on ML. Study how AI works, how you fine-tune a model. That way, starting from big base models, everyone can build their own workflow and feed the growth of OSS, because it might be the last ground we have left. You don’t have much time. Don’t overthink it. Start putting distance between yourself and them. submitted by /u/0xMassii
Originally posted by u/0xMassii on r/ArtificialInteligence
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