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