Most code is not P99 though.
Also, have you considered that your trust in Anthropic and distrust in China may not be shared by many outside the US? There's a reason why Huawei is the largest supplier of 5G hardware globally.
Also, have you considered that your trust in Anthropic and distrust in China may not be shared by many outside the US? There's a reason why Huawei is the largest supplier of 5G hardware globally.
Most code is not P99, but companies pay a premium to produce code that is. That’s my point.
But yes this is a non-sequitor. The original question was "What competitive advantage does OpenAI/Anthropic has when companies like Qwen/Minimax/etc are open sourcing models that shows similar (yet below than OpenAI/Anthropic) benchmark results?"
Even if you don't trust Chinese companies, and you want a hosted model, you can always pay a third party to host a Chinese open weight model. And it'll be a lot cheaper than OpenAI.
And in world where code generation costs are trending to zero, goodluck commanding a premium to produce any kind of code.
There is a whole bunch of P99 code that is open-source. What makes code P99 is not the model that produces it, but the people who verify/validate/direct it.