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> the average worker can do most of their tasks with 5% of the api costs using an open source model from China and achieve the same results.

Are you also going to tell me that everyone will be switching to their favorite Linux desktop distribution over Mac & Win because it's "free"?

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We're talking about corporations here. Of course they use Linux, and of course they'll provide their employees access to the LLMs that cost half the price and are 90% as good.

I can't tell if you're being serious or sarcastic.

In case it's the former, nobody in the corporate world is using Linux desktops.

And let me know when your parents start using the Chinese LLMs on their own.

> nobody in the corporate world is using Linux desktops

This is the wrong comparison. An LLM provider isn't like a desktop OS; it's like a server OS. And everybody is using Linux for their servers.

> And let me know when your parents start using the Chinese LLMs on their own.

That already happened. To be fair, they're Chinese.

How is the effort switching from an operating system containing all your data and apps, which might not be compatible with the new one, comparable to just switching an api key?

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