@GaryMarcus: from tokenmaxxing to this in less than three months. anyone who doesn’t see this as affecting Anthropic and OpenAI is n…
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Gary Marcus notes that companies are shifting to cheaper and open-source AI models due to high costs, threatening Anthropic and OpenAI's market position.
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from tokenmaxxing to this in less than three months.
anyone who doesn’t see this as affecting Anthropic and OpenAI is not paying attention.
Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai): UBS says 60% of companies now watching AI budgets are moving to cheaper models and open-source Chinese models
The pressure is coming from extreme bills, including users spending up to $35K/month, teams exceeding quotas by 200%, and companies cutting internal AI tools from 5 to
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