They would rather spend time and focus hardening against open models stealing their intelligence than make their tooling better for the people who use them.
> They would rather spend time and focus hardening against open models stealing their intelligence than make their tooling better for the people who use them.
Well yes exactly, because they have billions of investments riding on it and why would anyone semi-bankrupt their org paying API rates for Anthropic, if a hypothetical DeepSeek V5 Pro would have almost all of Opus capabilities at that point, due to immense distillation?
Like most things this race is starting to become a race to the bottom.
Will people keep paying a highly highly premium price for another 5% intelligence when you just loop 5 more times for much cheaper?
Their time would be better spend making a more competitive and more compelling tool instead of adding walls that are easy to jailbreak. There’s always another way around.
Well yes exactly, because they have billions of investments riding on it and why would anyone semi-bankrupt their org paying API rates for Anthropic, if a hypothetical DeepSeek V5 Pro would have almost all of Opus capabilities at that point, due to immense distillation?