[throwaway115]

It doesn't matter because they hold all of the cards. It's the nature of power: you can get away with things that you normally couldn't. If you really want OpenAI to behave, you'll support their competitors and/or open source initiatives.

[benreesman]

But their product isn’t really differentiated anymore and has really low switching costs: Opus is better at almost anything than the 4-series (training on MMLU isn’t a capability increase), Mistral is competitive and vastly more operator-aligned, both are cheaper and non-scandal plagued.

Mistral even has Azure distribution.

FAIR is flat open-sourcing competitive models and has a more persuasive high-level representation learning agenda.

What cards? Brand recognition?

[doubloon]

already cancelled my OpenAI account and installed llama3 on my local machine, and have a paid Copilot membership