Why don’t OpenAI or Anthropic host open models themselves?
PlateLive8645 · reddit · 2026-07-20
A discussion about why OpenAI or Anthropic don't host open-source models themselves.
The poster argues that if Chinese open models are being used to pressure competitors, US frontier labs could respond by hosting those same models on their own infrastructure—effectively turning them into subagents inside an OpenRouter-like service. The implied point is that these companies’ datacenter and distribution advantages may be better used to compete at the platform layer instead of only defending against distillation.
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