The reason steam has avoided rot is because its a private company with a passionate owner who is not bound by the reckless profit seeking inherent in public corporations, and is thus capable of making long term plans even if it will cost the company profits in the short-medium term.
Its frequently the case that companies with strong founders that forge a monopoly manage to keep the company together as they slowly accumulate power and capital until their inevitable passing.
But as you say, everything dies, and once Gabe Newell dies his successor may not be as...
>DeepSeek-R1 is currently the best model at creative writing as judged by Sonnet 3.7 (https://eqbench.com/creative_writing.html). This doesn't necessarily correlate with human preferences, including coherence preferences.
It should be noted that "best at creative writing" is very different from "best at multi-turn writing and roleplaying in collaboration with humans". I haven't used R1 since its first major version (maybe its gotten better?), but it had some massive issues with instruction following, resulting in laser focusing on irrelevant minor detail... (read more)