The Case That Open Source Models Will Make API-Based AI Look Expensive Within Two Years

A growing cohort of practitioners is arguing that sending proprietary data to OpenAI and Anthropic will soon seem reckless — on both cost and security grounds.

@baileygspell made a prediction that resonated: "In 2 years we are all going to think it was crazy that we were sending data to OpenAI and Anthropic." The argument is that open-source model costs will decline enough to make self-hosted inference the default for any organization with proprietary data.

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