This will keep going around the table, next it might be a Chinese company that demos 98% of the capability at 1/4 the price. The objective of being at the cutting edge of LLM performance seems like more of a marketing advantage in the game of sucking in more capital for a moatless technology.
Which makes me think they are getting the strategy exactly backwards. My problem is usually not something that would be solved by the AI being better but instead by it being more integrated into my life.
