All of the following are true:

- They have internal models that still show there's gas in the tank, in terms of improvements

- Open models are eroding their customer base on the low end of the curve, & also you need not use Astra Max to classify images.

- The true demand for high-intelligence tasks is lower than what they need to justify their spending

- It would be wonderful for them to kick up a scare & give reasons as to why high-int open models should be regulated out of existence, opening up the lower end for them to take again

- Setting up an oligopoly for themselves gives them a captive audience, just like it did for (insurance, banking, telecoms, etc.) via regulatory capture