I agree with everything you're saying. And I would also agree if you can run your business adequately on OSS models you should absolutely do that for exactly the reasons you say. All I mean is: frontier models will always have their place and I don't see a way for OSS to ever change that picture. I also worry that the economics that makes meaningful open weights model development possible may break someday but I don't really see a mechanism for this at this point.
I don't actually have a use case in mind where you would _need_ or get a substantial competitive advantage of the absolute frontier in some sort of workflow or whatever load bearing DAG there is for your business. But if there are cases like this, that will suck.
I don't actually have a use case in mind where you would _need_ or get a substantial competitive advantage of the absolute frontier in some sort of workflow or whatever load bearing DAG there is for your business. But if there are cases like this, that will suck.