Could Suddenly-Great Open Source AI Crash the US Economy?

Not sure why I haven't thought more about this, but it seems like the US now has a massive economic vulnerability from cheap, high-quality, open source AI combined with cheap inference (See Cerberus, et al). Here's the scenario: US labs get people and companies hooked on top-tier inference ✅ The entire US economy re-orients to center around like 5 companies Their valuations keep growing while stealing the oxygen out of everything else ✅ The open source models start getting pretty good, and they