High-stakes game of musical chairs!

I made this image (with nanobanana 2.0) to illustrate what I think is happening in the current AI race. Right now, there's a heavy decline in quality and access to AI tools. Things like thinking budgets and usage quotas are getting heavily restricted and models are getting severely quantized in the native web UIs, coding and agentic usage. The big corporations are using the cost of running AI, in a vacuum, to starve out smaller competitors in the world's most expensive game of "loss-leader musical chairs.