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The problem here is that open weight models are already good enough for a majority of process automation and intelligence tasks and that is where a good chunk of efficiency corporate dollars are. So there's an ever shrinking slice of inference that will hit the frontier models and inference is where the insane margins are. Now to be fair, Claude co-work and Claude code/Codex do seem magical today and these potentially will continue to be high margin/leverage plays. Frontier models are also likely to push towards decision making - so we'll have to see how it shakes out but the bottom end is already commoditized and it is getting bigger and bigger.


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