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This rings true to me as someone who's worked at a few large corps like this. A price hike does not change things when there is a mandate to use MS products over other vendors.

Bingo. Ghcp is the only allowed llm solution at our big well known semiconductor corp. It'll take years to get approval for anything else. We're stuck with it and will pay whatever price we have to.

That is exactly where I am.

We're putting other providers through the gauntlet. An M4 Studio or two running the latest Qwen3 or whatever counts for state of the art in open models is also looking a little more viable all the time.

They can be super complementary! Open weight models can be your everyday standard goto, and frontier models for the harder and bigger tasks.

Having some open weight deployment or vendor is also a good thing, because you may have domain specific tasks where you can get better results on domain specific problems with a quick finetune.

Unsloth makes it particularly easy. Open weight LLMs are incredibly powerful building blocks.