Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison on the biggest problem facing all AI models including ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and Llama – The Times of India

Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison on the biggest problem facing all AI models including ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and Llama – The Times of India

By TOI Tech Desk
Publication Date: 2026-01-26 08:08:00

Oracle’s Larry Ellison believes AI competition is becoming a commodity due to internet data sharing. He argues that the future lies in the use of private corporate data, a move in which Oracle is investing heavily with extensive infrastructure plans. While competitors are also building enterprise AI, Oracle’s existing database dominance could be the key to success in this next wave of AI.

Oracle co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison has summed up what he believes is the fatal flaw in today’s AI competition: Every major model, from ChatGPT to Gemini to Metas Llama, is essentially trained on the same publicly available internet data. During Oracle’s second-quarter 2026 earnings call in December, Ellison argued that this common foundation is quickly turning cutting-edge AI into a commodity product with razor-thin differentiation.“All the major language models – OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, xAI – are all trained on the same data. It’s all public data from the internet,” Ellison said. “So basically they’re all…