Comment by lrvick

So if I am understanding you correctly, the final moat will be private AI optimizations hidden behind closed doors so the public has nothing to reverse engineer.

That moat will hold so long as no one cares about what you built enough to ask a model of similar power to yours "get me similar results to X" until they learn their own path to do so. Maybe one even more efficient than yours.

It will just take one of those people to Open Source something good enough and game over.