There is no emperor distributing boons for the mathematicians of today.

Yes there is. The owners of the models will be the emperor, and we have already seen some suggestion for how they will distribute boons - consider OpenAI’s Navier Stokes result and how they offered co-authorship on condition of excluding the employee of a competitor.

There is also a subtle fatalistic fallacy at play in the author’s claims: “Progress is inevitable. This is progress. Therefore this is inevitable.”

But this doesn’t follow. We may reject this instance of progress, and allow the inevitability of progress to furnish us with another option.