alt Hacker News> Aren't they currently propped up by investor money?
Are Chinese model shops propped up by investor money? Is Google?
Open weights models are only 6 months behind SOTA. If new model development suddenly stopped, and today's SOTA models suddenly disappeared, we would still have access to capable agents.
>we would still have access to capable agents.
But they would be outdated, right?
Would an agent that can only code in COBOL would be as useful today?