Time from closed API to open-model compute shrank from 23 months to 5
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-08-19
Startups are moving to open models much faster: the median time from first paying OpenAI/Anthropic API bills to first buying open-model compute shrank from 23 months in 2022 to 5 months in 2025.
The driver is simple: some workloads see roughly 80% cost reduction.
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