I ain't paying 1000 USD per year (83,33 per month) for this garbage. I pay about 18 EUR per month for a Mistral subscription, and if it cost 3-4 the cost, I wouldn't pay for it.

The beauty is the open models: the margins are going to be thin on proprietary models. The only thing they got going for it, is creating artificial scarcity. But the Chinese are able to buy them from secondary markets anyway, or via Jensen Huang's girlfriend.

Even if the US proprietary models are 6 months ahead, there's going to be a time when the competition is good enough. I believe we are already well past that point.