●builderAt a 50x token cost differential, switching inference providers for non-frontier tasks to DeepSeek-class models is worth benchmarking now.
●founderThe commodity pricing floor set by open-weight models makes any product built on closed-model API costs structurally vulnerable unless you're selling to buyers who pay for the brand.
●investorAnthropic and OpenAI's pricing power thesis depends on sustained capability moats; if open-weight models close the gap, the premium margin story weakens significantly.