I can drop in replace LLMs in my everyday usage. If OpenAI introduces ads, I will switch and never look back. They have no Moat, and right now the Chinese companies catch up shortly after the models are released… All these arguments about average people not knowing about other LLM companies can be fixed with a simple internet search or information sharing. No big deal.

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klntsky 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Opensource LLMs are absolutely not on par with gpt-5 for any agentic workflows

	▲	lordofgibbons 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Ads aren't added to agentic workflows. Agentic usage of gpt-5 is only available if you're a paying user.
	▲	EagnaIonat 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Tool calling I've found takes a bit of work, but Ollama with gpt-oss:20b/120b run on my laptop and work quite well for 90% of the stuff I do. So it's only a matter of time.
	▲	beefnugs 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		They dont have to be, they just have to be smart enough to remove anything that sounds like a brand from a "good cloud model". This is barely beyond if-else if we start tracking all brands doing the advertising