https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/opinion/ai-industry-competition-innovation.html “There are no lazy monopolists in the A.I. space coasting on past advantages. Over the past year, the top spot on the Arena leaderboard has moved among those three companies, with strong performances from newer arrivals such as the Chinese company DeepSeek and the French firm Mistral — many of which require far less capital than earlier generations of A.I. companies… …And this is only the foundational model layer. On top of it sits a sprawling ecosystem of consumer applications, enterprise tools, device integrations and start-ups aiming to serve niches as specific as gyms and hair salons. …This churn has helped prevent any single technological paradigm from taking control. Enormous sums of venture capital have flowed readily to alternative approaches — like world models that aim to reason about reality more directly than large language models — and incumbents cannot afford to ignore them… …A.I. competition is delivering rapid innovation, falling prices and real choice at a pace few expected.” submitted by /u/AngleAccomplished865
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