Facing the Future

People Beat Capital
Sam Altman convinced the markets, and his competitors, that a “Large Language Model” was everything, that software no longer matters. Nothing could be further from the truth.

DeepSeek and Manus have shown that the best hack still wins. They’ve also shown the superiority of the Open Source model and mindset.

Meta claimed to have that, but it also tried to redefine open source, as in “you can download it free, you can use it free, but all your improvements belong to me,” which isn’t open source at all. The Chinese startups are using real Open Source licenses, and the market is flocking to them.