Closed labs may stop selling their best frontier models through APIs
A_K_Nain · x · 2026-07-26
The author predicts that the best frontier models from closed labs will increasingly not be sold through API, except for enterprise use cases.
They also expect consumer-facing models to be heavily nerfed in every possible way, implying a widening gap between what labs keep internally and what end users get.
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