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So far open source AI has been neck and neck with proprietary offerings. I'd even wager to say that companies as big as Eleven Labs have zero moat [1].

The minute copyright lawsuits begin to land, suddenly the copyright becomes the moat. Big companies will license, and everyone else will wither on the vine. Google and Facebook will reign supreme.

I'm terrified by that. I hope we have a few more years to compile open data sets and tools.

[1] That is to say, thus far, product is the only moat, not models and not data. Most companies have razor thin product so far.