An exhaustive investigation into the rapid decentralization of frontier AI. As SpaceX AI’s Grok 4.6 reshapes performance-per-dollar benchmarks, coding agent valuations surge past $40 billion, and neo-cloud infrastructure providers lock in multi-year backlogs, the closed-source triopoly faces unprecedented structural disruption.
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