Your $47 Million AI Model Just Became Worth $3,000 on the Open Market

OpenAI spent $100M training GPT-4. By the end of 2025, you’ll be able to buy a fine-tuned version for the cost of a used Honda Civic. And nobody running a billion-dollar AI lab wants to admit what tha

I’m on a call with a VP of AI at a major tech company. He’s explaining their competitive moat: proprietary models trained on proprietary data at proprietary compute scale. He’s very confident about this moat.

I ask him one question: “What happens when your $80 million model can be fine-tuned by a teenager for $2,400 and sold on a decentralized marketplac…