Tech Visionary Says the Big AI Labs Don’t Get What People Want
THE SO WHAT
Tim O’Reilly’s critique—paired with his backing of open source—captures a growing gap between centralized assistant platforms and what developers actually want: control, transparency, and local leverage. If you’re building on AI, hedge your stack with at least one open model path so you’re not fully exposed to a single lab’s product thesis.
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