Comment by mochidusk
12 hours ago
GPT 5.6 Sol comes out ahead of Kimi K3 on price/task (but not significantly so). You're probably thinking, "Why use Kimi K3? Isn't an open model supposed to beat the closed one on price?", but you need to consider that the closed models are completely hobbled when trying to do anything security-related. For my use-case, I can't risk getting pwned because I'm using a model that refuses to secure my app while there is now an open model that obliges to obliterate any app that isn't protected.
Even if it were slightly more expensive, it's still a better sales proposition for a company if they can run it from a hardware provider with their own locked down VPS and ensure that their IP is protected and that their data isn't being stolen or trained on. The fact that it's a little cheaper is icing on the cake.
Honestly, it's the only sane way for the market to move. The big labs are obviously stealing our data. Anthropic in particular clean-rooms everything you feed it, even if you opt out, so that it can train on your IP without getting sued. It's a copyright grey area they're abusing because the law has not kept up.