> Hopefully it continues to get commoditized to the point where no monopoly can get a stranglehold on it

I believe this is the natural end-state for LLM based AI but the danger of these companies even briefly being worth trillions of dollars is that they are likely to start caring about (and throwing lobbying money around) AI-related intellectual property concerns that they've never shown to anyone else while building their models and I don't think it is far fetched to assume they will attempt all manner of underhanded regulatory capture in the window prior to when commoditization would otherwise occur naturally.

All three of OpenAI, Google and Anthropic have already complained about their LLMs being ripped off.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-02-13/openai-acc...

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/dis...

https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/anthropic-china-deepseek-thef...