“Even if GLM 5.2 is truly nearly as good as Opus 4.8, it did so by copying its outputs, which means that these models will likely only get as good as long as the foundation model companies keep training, which will only be possible if they can keep raising funding, which will become difficult if open source models eat their lunch in any meaningful way.”
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Distilled open models like GLM 5.2 will likely improve only while frontier labs keep training, which depends on fundraising that open-source competition would undermine.
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Where and when Ed Zitron wrote it
Where's Your Ed At, The AI Industry Is Losing, paragraph 150.
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- if open source models meaningfully eat frontier labs' lunch, fundraising becomes difficult (antecedent, stated by the speaker)
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- if open source models meaningfully eat frontier labs' lunch, fundraising becomes difficult
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: Where's Your Ed At, The AI Industry Is Losing
Even if GLM 5.2 is truly nearly as good as Opus 4.8, it did so by copying its outputs, which means that these models will likely only get as good as long as the foundation model companies keep training, which will only be possible if they can keep raising funding, which will become difficult if open source models eat their lunch in any meaningful way.
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- paragraph 150
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- 2026-06-30
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- , live page
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- full text, public
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- Assessment wyea-the-ai-industry-is-losing-5df502-a1: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Not checked against evidence. Public date not recorded.
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