Comment by jmull

> This is one reason the open-model threat is not as large as it appears: frontier models don’t merely outperform older models; they are rapidly becoming cheaper to run at any given level of performance.

This really misses the point. The “threat” (to the profits of big AI companies) is that competition will drive prices down in a race to the bottom. It doesn’t really “help” (drive the profits for big AI companies) if that competition comes from open-ish models or from competing big AI companies or anywhere else.