AI Labs Will Trap You or Replace You - Dillon Rolnick, Nous Research
Dillon Rolnick, CEO of Nous Research, argues that as AI models commoditize, the labs that spent trillions building them have two ways to earn it back: lock businesses into their platforms and raise prices, or point their own systems at lucrative industries like finance and compete directly. He makes the case that the moats of proprietary software are gone, that agents are closer to operating systems than chatbots, and that companies should build on open foundations they own and control, like Hermes Agent, so they can swap models and inherit new capabilities instead of rebuilding them. Chapter…