⚡️ Corporate America is quietly ditching OpenAI for open-weight models
Not for coding. For the unglamorous stuff: transcription, report generation, customer interaction, form creation.
And the math is hard to argue with. SOTA APIs can run $45k/year per use case. Open models? closer to $2-3k.
For routine white-collar automation, "good enough" is good enough.
Nytimes
Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I.
Companies like AT&T are increasingly using cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over expensive ones from Anthropic and OpenAI.
September 4, 2026 675 2
