Localized, decentralized open-source AI models — the 'Last Economy' — will form the backbone of AI infrastructure, stripping monopolistic pricing power from centralized hyperscalers.

Localized, decentralized open-source AI models — the 'Last Economy' — will form the backbone of AI infrastructure, stripping monopolistic pricing power from centralized hyperscalers. | Open-source model reaching GPT-5/Claude-5 parity

Key catalyst: Open-source model reaching GPT-5/Claude-5 parity

Watch events: On-device inference benchmarks; open-source frontier-model releases

Llama 4, DeepSeek-V3, Kimi K2 establish high-quality open-source frontier; on-device inference improving rapidly; hyperscaler cost-parity still challenging for state-of-art.

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