The problem for them is that you have some of the largest companies on earth creating a very similar product and giving it away for free -- possibly just to prevent OpenAI from developing a profitable business model.
Erm.. no. Kubernetes is OSS, yet very many serious people still pay good money to use hosted and managed K8s anyways because the overhead is too high. Same goes for local models, no one(except hardcore folks) is interested to invest on a beefy GPU or run strange shell command things and suffer laggy subpar response running CPU only models while they can throw some coins at OAI and get all they need.
We need to realize that, the target fir current AI wave is NOT tech folks(claude/mistral/cursor et al. serve that group), but business people who want the “gain in productivity”, “fire the expensive employees and get that pat on the back when margins go high and same work get done by AI and some cheap junior mini team”, “quickly prepare that keynote/email/report for random topic”, “want to learn language X by building a wrapper over API” etc.
