Can OpenAI and Anthropic Survive the Open-Weight Price War?
Existing-Wallaby-444 · reddit · 2026-08-27
A discussion on Reddit about how Chinese open-weight models are crushing OpenAI and Anthropic on price while the capability gap closes rapidly. The question is raised whether companies can keep inference prices high or if the open-weight wave will inevitably eat their margins.
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