> Nobody in his right mind will...

let a few valley elites decide how humanity can use this technology

open and transparent is the way, China is showing how

I’m rooting for open models, but SOL 6.1 and Opus 5.5 are absolute workhorses on a $100/mo sub. I share your fears, though, and really hope an open model catches up and can somehow compete with the subscription prices of the big 2.

	▲	verdverm an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I have workhorse models, spend far less, the model matters less than people like to claim there's no money long term in being a token vendor The biggest revelation from using open weights, because the vendors offer most of them up, is how useful using multiple model families is. Regardless of open or closed, if you are only using one family like Ant or Oai models, you're leaving a lot on the table. A harness like OpenCode will enable you to use different models in one session, or more specifically different subtasks when doing long running teams.