> We're not there yet.

And that's not considering that capitalism is going to do what it does best: if they really found a way to be profitable, competitors are going to fight them on pricing. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, etcetera 's margins are a competitors' opportunities.

It's not as if there weren't chinese models nearly SOTA. Don't know where the french (Mistral) are but they may try to get in the game if there's a way to be profitable (not that France or the EU for that matter are relevant in anything tech or had any tech company besides ASML and SAP in the Top 100 but who knows).