Comment by syntaxing

Comment by syntaxing 19 hours ago

They should be concerned with open weight models that don’t run on consumer hardware. The larger models from Qwen (Qwen Max) and ZLM (GLM and GLM air) perform not too far from Claude Sonnet 4 and GPT-5. ZLM offers a $3 plan that is decently generous. I can pretty much replace it over Sonnet 4 in Claude Code (I swear, Anthropic has been nerfing Sonnet 4 for people on the Pro plan).

You can run Qwen3-coder for free upto 1000 requests a day. Admittedly not state of the art but works as good of 5o-mini

imachine1980_ 19 hours ago

I believe regular people will not change from chatGPT if it has some ads. I know people who use "alternative" wrappers that have ads because they aren't tech savvy, and I agree with the OP that this could be a significant amount of money We aren't 700 million people that use it.

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syntaxing 19 hours ago

Definitely don’t argue against that, once people get into a habit of using something, it takes quite a bit to get away from it. Just that an American startup can literally run ZLM models themselves (open weight with permissive license) as a competitor to ChatGPT is pretty wild to think about

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- hx8 19 hours ago
  
  One of the side effects of having a chat interface, is that there is no moat around it. Using it is natural.
  Changing from Windows to Mac or iOS to Android requires changing the User Interface. All of these chat applications have essentially the same interface. Changing between ChatGPT and Claude is essentially like buying a different flavor of potato chip. There is some brand loyalty and user preference, but there is very little friction.
  
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- ab5tract 13 hours ago
  
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