Right, and yet the openai/anthropic models are still a tier above other options despite everyone gunning for them for at least one if not multiple years. While there are numerous jev-likes being spun up _in less than a month_ that are performing (as far as I can tell) up to and sometimes exceeding jev's accuracy.
This isnt the same as dropbox putting in a bunch of work to make the UX "just work", or even stripe doing the same for payments. This is "send me an api call that is in 1 of 3 forms, and get a response back in this form". The heavy lifting is in making that fast and cheap, and because they havent demonstrated a secret sauce in making it hard to outperform actual results that leaves a lot of room for competitors to get their existing models to run faster and cheaper for the same use case.
This isnt the same as dropbox putting in a bunch of work to make the UX "just work", or even stripe doing the same for payments. This is "send me an api call that is in 1 of 3 forms, and get a response back in this form". The heavy lifting is in making that fast and cheap, and because they havent demonstrated a secret sauce in making it hard to outperform actual results that leaves a lot of room for competitors to get their existing models to run faster and cheaper for the same use case.