Comment by bigyabai

The OSS models are good, but weren't very competitive at release with alternatives like Qwen3 Coder A3B. If you were a startup, why would you build on OpenAI's first (and last, for quite some time) model versus Qwen3, which was updated with multiple open-weight point releases?

The article certainly has a point, the current release cadence is untenable for startups that want frontier-grade models from American labs. Unless America wants to cede that market entirely, OpenAI et. al. need to kick it into gear, fast.