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Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by bix6 on Thursday March 19, 2026 @10:20AM (#47439993)
If it goes bad? It’s too late by that point. And how is open source going to compete with billions of investment dollars?
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Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by darth_avocado on Thursday March 19, 2026 @10:25AM (#47440091)
If AI tools are as good as the CEOs claim, we should have no friction towards building multiple open source alternatives very quickly. Unless of course, they aren’t as good as they are being sold as, in which case, we have nothing to worry about.
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