Everyone I know is either starting to or planning to switch to open weight models. Cost savings are just too good.

This is what will cook frontier AI and probably prevent the investment scale to happen for AGI. Humans + good enough cheap AI is just more economic and unbelievably productive. Like why we fly on jet technology from the 1960s still with incremental improvements.

It’s why Anthropic is desperate for capital and trying to get to a scale where AGI appears. But I’m afraid they won’t get there in time and the money to build the bigger model will have dried up.