@omarsar0: It's one data point, but I think token share for open models will continue to rise. You can get more insights by lookin…
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The post argues that open models' token share will rise due to cost-effectiveness in multi-agent systems, referencing data showing open-source AI gaining market share from OpenAI and Anthropic.
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It’s one data point, but I think token share for open models will continue to rise.
You can get more insights by looking more closely at the multi-agent systems/patterns being adopted across domains. A supervisor leads a bunch of execution subagents (frontier open models work beautifully here). This is one of the most effective and widely used patterns today, where subagents dominate token use (which you can get from frontier open models at a much better price and efficiency). This trend will continue. There really is no point in using a Fable 5 for everything, where cheaper models will do just fine and at a faster and cheaper rate.
Gavin Baker (@GavinSBaker): More data than open-source AI is taking share from OpenAI and Anthropic. Open source has gone from 28% token share to 62% token share @vercel over the last 2 months. Chart from @rauchg
Super impressive given that the sum of OpenAI and Anthropic accelerated in July. So net
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