Comment by ai-x

The only metric that matters is f(cost, time, task). If Anthropic has a SOTA model, it can easily distill every model in the pareto frontier and have the SOTA model route appropriately. They haven't felt the 'sting' yet to optimize that (still growing their ARR at a crazy growth rate)

Ant can top any benchmark that measures f(cost, time, task). The only entities that can beat them in costs are infrastructure providers who can do optimization at that layer. But a pure Model company can *never* compete with Anthropic on f(cost, time, task) if they continue to have SOTA models